The overall median loss reported in fraud cases in the United States and Canada in 2020 was $120,000. Employee theft comprised 44% of all cases with a median loss of $60,000. Theft by company owners and executives comprised only 21% of cases but resulted in an enormous median loss of $438,000.
A closer look at pandemic-shaped working environments, the risks they create and what employers and employees can do to prevent harm.
If not careful, officers and managers can find their personal assets at risk
Your neighbor plans to erect a fence on the property line or boundary between your adjoining residences and wants you to pay half the cost. Is this legal in California?
In 2019, California restricted, and in some cases banned, the use of non-disclosure agreements (often referred to as NDAs) for issues of sexual assault or harassment amid the rise of the #MeToo movement. Since then, the overall validity and enforceability of NDAs in the Golden State has raised both eyebrows and legal questions.
According to a survey by FindLaw.com, boundary disputes constitute approximately 17% of real estate issues between neighbors. Where your property begins and ends is a very common dispute between homeowners and their neighbors.
In 2019, approximately 1,400 new trade secret cases were filed in federal courts across the United States. Plaintiffs who were successful in their trade secret claims were awarded over $45 million in total. Trade secrets can include methods, techniques, programs, processes, patterns, and devices.
In a recent case, Wood Litigation, APC joined forces with the Law Offices of David H. Schwartz in representing founders of a digital marketing company. The founders were forced to sell their shares in a cash-out merger before the marketing company experienced exponential growth. As a result of being forced-out, the founders missed out on the company’s sale years later, ...
The firm has a perfect record in defeating efforts to enjoin its clients from doing business in trade secret misappropriation case.
Wood Litigation, APC is panel counsel for two accounting malpractice carriers and has represented hundreds of solo to midsize accounting firms in a variety of cases. One of the firm’s special areas of practice is the defense of accounting firms.
