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— By Alex HurstNovember 15, 20180 Comments

A Rose by Any Other Name: Making Sure Your Trade Name Smells as Sweet

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, actually. Most entrepreneurs are aware that their businesses’ trade name has value as a trademark or service mark and that using someone else’s name could expose them to liability for infringement, but that’s only part of the story. …

— By Alex HurstOctober 11, 20170 Comments

The Serious Uncertainties Surrounding Series LLCs

Much as the limited liability company (LLC) took the country by storm in the early 1990s, forever changing the American landscape of corporate governance and small business taxation, a new type of entity is proliferating from state to state: the protective series LLC. Originally developed…

— By Alex HurstJanuary 11, 20170 Comments

Products-Liability Defendants Feeling the Baby (Powder) Blues in St. Louis

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” That is the message figuratively inscribed above the door of the Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis, at least if the American Tort Reform Association’s (ATRA) latest “Judicial Hellhole” rankings are to be believed. ATRA, a…

— By Alex HurstOctober 27, 20160 Comments

What Businesses Need to Know About Potential Liability for Data Security Breaches

Increasingly, it seems that business news headlines are dominated by whatever the latest and biggest corporate data breach is. For instance, Yahoo recently announced that confidential information relating to at least 500 million – and maybe over a billion – of its user accounts was…

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— By Alex HurstJune 21, 20160 Comments

Justice Scalia’s Passing Grants Unexpected Reprieve to Beleaguered Lending Regulation

Did the Federal Reserve Board overstep its authority when it defined someone who guarantees the debt of another as an “applicant” for credit? It’s an issue seemingly about as sexy as watching white paint dry. Still, of all the cases on the U.S. Supreme Court’s…

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— By Alex HurstMay 9, 20162 Comments

Giving It a Proper Burial: Dissolving LLCs and Corporations in Missouri

When it comes to corporations, LLCs, and other entities, people tend to focus on their birth rather than their death, with most available literature being on the pros and cons of different types of entities and how to go about creating one. But for reasons…

— By Alex HurstFebruary 25, 20160 Comments

Which Hat Are You Wearing?

Often in my practice I’ll write documents that call upon a client who owns all or part of a limited liability company (“LLC”) or other entity to sign more than once on the same signature page. This may seem silly, but it serves an important…