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Small business owners have to juggle many competing demands in order to succeed. If you are a Toronto small business owner considering litigation against your business partner, you may wish to [...]

If you want to set your small business up for success, you need to do more than just be an expert in your field. You need to protect both yourself and your business by putting the right contracts [...]

No entrepreneur looks forward to spending money on legal fees. But in today’s business world, lawyers are not only beneficial to your company, they are essential. Proper legal advice can make [...]

Part I of this blog discussed the discovery process in general as well as the first two steps: creating the discovery plan and exchanging affidavits of documents. Part II of this blog post will [...]

Discovery is the process whereby all of the parties exchange relevant information and evidence relating to a civil lawsuit in preparation for trial. This process can be a lot of work for both you [...]

There are many factors to consider when making or responding to an offer to settle an ongoing lawsuit. This blog post will discuss the purposes and effects of making, accepting, or rejecting an [...]

If you are thinking about buying or selling a business, you undoubtedly have questioned whether you should structure that purchase or sale as a share purchase or asset purchase transaction. For [...]

So you think you have a claim against another person or business for harm caused by their wrongdoing. What you may not know is that you have a limited amount of time in which to commence your [...]

The death of a shareholder does not prevent the continued operation of the corporation, but what happens to the shareholder’s shares? To find out what will happen to a shareholder’s shares once [...]

If you have incorporated or are preparing to do so, you have probably heard that you will need to maintain and keep all your corporate documents, but what does that actually mean and why is it [...]

If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur, you’ve probably learned quickly that negotiation is not only unavoidable in business – it’s critical to the success of your company. And [...]

The very first document that is negotiated between the parties in a transaction – such as the purchase of a business – is often a letter of intent (LOI). While many business owners [...]

Are you thinking of taking your business to the next level? Maybe you’ve been running it as a sole proprietor for a while now, and want to separate personal and business assets – and risks. [...]

Small business owners are often balancing competing demands and interests, and trying to be as cost-efficient as possible when doing so. It’s no different when it comes to hiring legal counsel. [...]

When lawyers start their practices, they often need to make the choice between pursuing litigation or corporate law.  And while there are some legal professionals who transition between these two [...]