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Portland Area Law Blog
How to protect yourself from lawsuits as a business in Oregon
According to a Small Business Administration survey, 36–53% of small businesses have to deal with a lawsuit every year, and many small businesses receive a threat of a lawsuit. These statistics are far too high for comfort. In order to protect yourself and what you...
Are business partnerships doomed to fail?
When a business partnership is first formed, the new partners come into the agreement full of dreams and energy. Drawn into entrepreneurship by the desire to be their own bosses, people pursue the dream of owning and operating their own companies with little thought...
How do you deal with business disputes?
There's a reason that many people don't recommend starting a business with your friends or family members in Oregon. If you enter a partnership dispute with this person, it could destroy your business and ruin your relationship. However, you might be able to negotiate...
Disclosures by sellers of real estate
Real estate transactions are some of the biggest purchases in people's lives. As a result, state laws require sellers to disclose information about real property to buyers during a sale. Individuals in Oregon and other states should be aware of some of the disclosures...
Protect yourself from deed theft
The internet has made stealing someone's identity much easier than in previous decades. Thieves might use the information they find about their targets online to make their own Oregon identification cards in their names. They may apply for credit cards, purchase...
Businesses need clear succession plans
Starting a new Oregon-based business can be exciting and fulfilling. An individual may work for years turning their entity into a thriving industry player. Over time, they may begin to draw back from their day to day involvement and think of stepping down to hand...
How the arbitration process works
Arbitration is a type of alternative dispute resolution that allows participants the opportunity to resolve their disputes in a manner that is more private and potentially more cost and time-saving. Arbitration is not always well understood, however, so it is helpful...
After 2020, will alternative dispute resolution go mainstream?
Prior to March, 2020, most of us had never heard of Zoom. Most of us had never teleworked or did so infrequently. And, in the blissful way-before times, a Corona was just a beer. Similarly, when it came to litigation, many gave little credence to alternative dispute...
Commercial leases: flatly different from their residential counterparts
Business principals and investors across the vibrant and growing Portland metro area often deal simultaneously with bracing challenges and attractive opportunities. In other words, entrepreneurs and established participants in the commercial realm are notably busy...
HOAs are powerful, but they have limits
Americans like to think of their homes as their castles, where their word is law. Of course, homeowners have limits to what they can do with their own homes. That's especially true for owners of condominiums and other homes that are subject to a homeowners...
