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Businesses are required to pay a laundry list of taxes throughout the year, including: federal income tax; state income tax; alternative minimum tax (AMT); business, professional, and occupational license taxes; tangible personal property taxes; payroll taxes; and sales tax.  Last...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, a case focused on the federal venue statute that affects the forum in which a plaintiff may bring a patent infringement lawsuit (28 U.S.C. §...

Recently, Sparks Law has been contacted by several clients with questions concerning a form that they received in the mail, from an entity called “Georgia Council for Corporations.”  This form offers to complete and file annual corporate minutes with the...

We are frequently asked by our clients to review non-compete and non-solicitation provisions. Clients sometimes get the two types of clauses confused and ask us: What exactly are the parties to the contract allowed to do? What are they prohibited...

Uber has had a tough past couple of weeks. First, Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, filed suit claiming that Uber used Google’s self-driving car technology, which had been stolen by one of its former employees. Then, this past...

Recently, a jury in Dallas, Texas ordered Facebook Inc.’s subsidiary Oculus, and other related defendants, to pay $500 million to ZeniMax Media, Inc. (the company that owns video game franchises, such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout). ZeniMax sued Facebook and Oculus,...

At Sparks Law, we believe that every business should be able to afford quality legal services. With that in mind, we created the Corporate Counsel Initiative. Business owners know that different legal issues come up every day, and there can...

A Non-Disparagement (or Protection of Reputation clause) prohibits individuals from taking any action that negatively impacts an organization, its reputation, products, services, management or employees. They are typically found in settlement agreements and many executive-level employment agreements. A recent case involving non-disparagement clauses is...

Bengt Holmström of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University’s Oliver Hart won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics for contributions in the development of contract theory. Contract theory helps in understanding agreements like insurance contracts, employer-employee relationships and property...