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Royalties, Contracts, and the Police: Why Sting's Bandmates Can’t Stand Losing Their Money How Evolving Music Technology ...

Navigating Corporate Transparency Act Compliance for Tax-Exempt Entities This guide provides an overview of the ...

Andy Griffith: Protecting Artist Royalties Before It Was Common In the early 1960s, when American families had only ...

Card Wars: Contracts, Trade Secrets, and the Battle for the Collectibles Market Inside the Panini vs. Fanatics Lawsuit: ...

First: the one thing we absolutely, without a doubt, know with certainty about the FTX debacle at this point is this: it ...

How We Got Here: Bo Jackson’s NCAA Compliance Controversy The Rise of a Phenomenon Bo Jackson was not just an ...

What Can Go Wrong When Contracts Are Not Clear The Ed Sheeran vs. Marvin Gaye Estate Trial The Ed Sheeran trial ended ...

...When a Son Runs It but Dad Owns It The Boston Celtics cruised to the NBA Championship in June. They returned with the ...

If you own a law firm in 2023, you need to discuss A.I. We do, so here goes: A.I. is the hottest trending news across ...

Texas recently took a bold step to reinforce its business-friendly reputation, as Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate ...

Litchfield is a beautiful town in the Central Hills of Connecticut. It sits on top of one of those hills, a New England ...

A Franchise Sale – Or Not: Navigating Complexities in Sports Franchise Transactions Competing Bids for the Connecticut ...

In this podcast, Hopkins Centrich Law managing member, Lee Winkelman discusses the importance of a company’s culture in ...

Have a Dickens of a Christmas We hope everyone is having a great week preparing for a joyful, fun, Christmas weekend ...

Negotiation: What Not to Do Pete Rose died a few weeks ago. Normally, the obituaries, social media, and news - sports ...

A Last Request That Shouldn’t Be Granted The great French actor Alain Delon died this week at age 88. He had lived ...

From Contract Disputes to Intellectual Property and Succession Issues, the NFL Has it All We are constantly asked ...

Employment And Labor Just as it did in other areas, the CARES Act makes some clarifications to previous Corona related ...

"On April 11, Lewis Perdue sat on a bench in a gallery on the 17th floor of Manhattan's Thurgood Marshall United States ...

The Noncompete Agreements NOT Affected by the FTC Ban Not All Noncompetes Are Equal in the Eyes of the FTC Right now, ...

Wrigley Field’s History and the Rise of Rooftop Viewing Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, holds a special place ...

Contracts, Controversies, and College Sports Here’s a solid bar trivia question: name a mainstream Hollywood drama that ...

The FTC Ban on Noncompete Agreements, First Impressions Hang On, It’s Going to be a Bumpy Ride On Tuesday the FTC ...

Valuations, the IRS, Probate, and Karma Joe Meador was a lieutenant with the 87th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. ...

Business Planning A Small Town and a Forced Sale A business planning story from a colleague in New England: It’s a ...

Decision Making and Running a Business Daniel Kahneman died a few months ago at age 90. Kahneman was awarded the 2002 ...

Representing Clients Means Successfully Telling Their Stories – even when they’re incredibly complex Dune: Part Two is ...

Step-Parents Late in Life and Plans Robbie Robertson was a seminal figure in Rock 'n' Roll. Founder of The Band – famous ...

Some Breach of Contracts Are Mistakes Numerous clients referred to us, by clients, call us because they feel they have ...

A lot of clients and people referred to us by clients call us because they feel they have been harmed by a breach of ...

It’s not very enjoyable to be writing about The Blind Side, Michael Oher, and the Touhys now that they’re back in the ...

Every so often there’ll be a story across the media about someone who made a fortune off of some kind of toy collection ...

Read Part 1 here. There was one more thing Lewis’ attorney never thought to tell him, this one wasn’t a legal opinion or ...

Sometimes probate is all about trying to figure out the deceased’s wishes. Sometimes people aren’t all that clear with ...

Manchester United and Business Planning The English Premier League started last month and already the theme of the ...

Happy Labor Day It’s Labor Day weekend and thoughts turn to the end of the summer and cook outs. And beer. Labor Day ...

Misguided Trademark Filings and Public Rejection Understanding Why Modified Trademarks Still Infringe Existing Rights ...

Shareholder Oppression Special Edition “Souls are boring. Boo, souls.” We won't have HBO's Succession to write about for ...

Business Planning A Lesson From Billions If you follow Showtime's Billions you can’t miss the fact that every character ...

he Answer to What a General Counsel Does When asked about how Hopkins Centrich acts as a ‘ General Counsel ’ services we ...

The Codicils of J. Paul Getty In 1958 J. Paul Getty was the richest man in the world. Verified in the Guinness Book of ...

Super Pumped! You have your pick Silicon-Valley-Startup-Charismatic-Entrepreneur-Rise-and-Crash shows across streaming ...

Happy Fourth of July We’re headed into the long July 4th weekend... what better time to talk about a startup. It’s a big ...

‘Dead Hand‘ is a term used to describe clauses found in some wills and trusts. From the Beastie Boys to the great ...

Between The Trees Business Talk - Lee Winkelman Lee Winkelman joined J.J. Hollie, President of The Woodlands Area ...

What about a probate case where the deceased was a French citizen living in the United States for tax reasons who left a ...

Honoring Last Wishes We write an awful lot about problems in probate, trusts, administration, executorships and much ...

Restrictive Covenants in M&A and Business Sales Protecting Your Interests After the Deal Restrictive covenants play a ...

Two cases, eighteen hundred miles apart, same time frame, same combination of family and estate law, eerily similar ...

John Wick and Business Law Let's talk about John Wick. The latest John Wick film - John Wick 4 – is breaking records at ...

The Art of Preparing for the Unforeseen: Lessons from March Madness March Madness has begun with conference tournaments ...

The Golden State Warriors won the NBA Championship Friday night – again. That’s four titles in eight years, six Finals ...

Frank Zappa's Estate: A Cautionary Tale for the Music Industry Frank Zappa started what became the family business in ...

... After Losing a Shareholder Suit in Delaware. Just a few weeks ago, Elon Musk lost a major shareholder suit in a ...

Valuations in Business and Estate Planning, A True Story A true story from a friend in New York who did a fair amount of ...

Being Prepared Planning for Things that May Never Happen March Madness has begun with conference tournaments around the ...

Dick Tracy’s Charity and Estate Planning There can’t be undue influence when someone leaves their entire estate to a ...

Triple Doubles and Business Law Introduction In this blog post, we will be discussing the remarkable achievements of ...

Wills, Trusts, Estates "It Ain't Over 'Til..." Here's a common Wills, Trust, Estates question: "How long does probate ...

Tulips in the Bahamas We - like the rest of the world - are still sorting through the riddle wrapped in a mystery inside ...