Sometimes keeping a corporation going serves no useful purpose. If you have such a corporation, here are some useful steps to consider.

Typical corporate terminations involve both a “liquidation,” the act of converting all corporate assets to cash, paying all outstanding bills, and distributing the remaining cash to the shareholders in exchange for their stock,

If you’ve decided to create a startup business, one of the many decisions you face is the choice of what type of limited liability entity to form. In Wisconsin, the most typical choices are either the Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) or corporation. I frequently have people ask me whether I can help them set up

The attorneys at Schober Schober & Mitchell, S.C. are excited about the recent news that a Commercial Court Docket (“CCD”) will be coming to circuit courts in the Fox Valley, as well as in Southeastern Wisconsin– right here in Waukesha County! On February 16, 2017, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin voted 5 to 2 to

Effective March 14, 2017, consumers will have what is being called by some, a “Right to Yelp”. The Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016 (“CRFA”) was enacted in December 2016, and prohibits businesses from inserting provisions into customer contracts that prohibit the customer from giving a derogatory online review about the business.

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For those of you who follow professional football, you are no doubt aware that Tom Brady, the 4-time Super Bowl winning Quarterback for the New England Patriots, recently came back from a suspension for (allegedly) deflating footballs. But why would I bring this up on our firm’s business law blog? Beside the implications for your

Time is runningTime Clock out to plan for some big changes in overtime pay law. Last summer we wrote about a proposed “modernization” in the Department of Labor’s overtime pay rules. The rule has now gone through the required commentary period, and will now be effective December 1, 2016.

Currently, overtime law allows employers to be

top secretA long awaited Federal Law on trade secret misappropriation was signed into effect last month. The new law, titled the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, or “DTSA”, creates a Federal cause of action for businesses who own trade secrets against individuals who have misappropriated the business’ confidential information. The law creates a uniform definition of

A Federal Appeals Court ruled earlier this month that an S-Corporation’s rental income from a leairs[1]se agreement with a C-Corporation with entirely common ownership with the S-Corp, could not be classified as passive activity income, and therefore could not offset the individual’s passive activity losses.

Internal Revenue Code section 469 was passed in the

Employers, you may soon be required to dish out more overtime pay to your employees. On June 30, 2015, the Department of Labor released their plan to “modernize” the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime pay rules for salaried employees. Currently, employers are only required to pay time-and-one-half to “white-collar” salaried employees that make $23,660 or