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Succeeding in Succession

Business Succession

If you are the owner of a closely-held or family-owned business, it is never too soon to start planning for your company’s future. From the infancy of your company, it is important to have the appropriate business and tax strategies in place in order to avoid difficulties, such as disputes over transfer of ownership and leadership, upon your retirement. To address these items, our Business & Succession Planning attorneys launched this blog to provide business owners with information regarding developments in business and succession planning law, weekly updates on industry trends impacting businesses and individuals, and tools and tips to successfully prepare for the future of their businesses. We hope you find our blog informative and entertaining and that you make it a regular part of your business reading.

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Succeeding in Succession

Consumer Finance Litigation

This blog focuses primarily on recently released federal court opinions addressing the fields of mortgage servicing, credit cards, auto finance, retail consumer loans, debt collection, and other consumer finance industries, with a spotlight on federal consumer protection statutes, including the Truth-in-Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, among others. The blog will also closely monitor recently released cases dealing with all provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) that may affect the consumer finance industry. State-specific case law, particularly in Burr & Forman’s geographic footprint – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee – will be addressed as well.

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Environmental Law Matters

Environmental Law Matters

The complex system of environmental laws and regulations impact our clients’ businesses in a variety of contexts, including legal issues arising in business strategy, regulatory compliance, permitting, transactions and dispute resolution. Our Environmental Law attorneys launched this blog to provide an avenue for our clients and other interested companies and individuals to keep up with news, statutory changes, and legal opinions, and to provide practical tips involving all areas of environmental law — particularly avoiding litigation and the environmental pitfalls that affect corporate and real estate transactions. We hope you enjoy our blog and find it to be a useful resource.

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The TCPA Addendum

TCPA Addendum

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act has received a lot of attention and has undergone significant judicial interpretation and change in the last few years. This Act has been applied to render multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements against both big and small companies across the country. For these reasons, our Financial Services Litigation attorneys launched this blog to keep clients, companies and individuals apprised of the continuous evolution of the Act. We hope you find our blog to be an educational resource for information, cases, and insights regarding the TCPA.

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Non-Compete and Trade Secrets

Non-compete Trade Secrets Law

Continual changes in non-compete and trade secrets law, as well as technological advances providing increasing avenues for unfair competition, make it imperative that businesses in all fields stay abreast of the latest developments in this area. For those reasons, our Non-Compete and Trade Secrets attorneys launched this blog to help employers, executives and attorneys keep up with news, statutory changes, legal opinions and practical tips involving all areas of unfair competition law, including non-competes, trade secrets, customer non-solicitation, non-recruitment, non-disclosure, confidentiality agreements, tortious interference with business relations, employee piracy, computer theft, breach of fiduciary duties, employee loyalty, and intellectual property rights. We hope you find value in our blog.

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