Problem: Clients are husband and wife and own a Dancing studio and retail store that sells related accessories, clothing and shoes.  It serves approximately 1800 students and customers per week from ages four to adult.  [...]

Problem: Early-stage client company is conducting a private placement offering of its securities.  A legitimate investor is willing to subscribe, but questions our client’s valuation.  Because client does not yet have revenue, and because the operations [...]

Problem: Client’s niece had moved from Texas to St. Louis to live.  When niece was a young child (she is now 19), she was in a car accident and suffered a severe head injury.  As [...]

Problem: A contractor was hired by a large retailer to perform work in one of its stores. The contractor hired a subcontractor to perform a portion of the work: cutting a concrete floor to expose [...]

Michael Kime, JD email | bio One of the curses of being a deal attorney and really liking what you do is that sometimes it is hard to turn off the transactional mind.  In the [...]

Certain cases must be tried to a judge without a jury, but a defendant has a constitutional right (usually!) to a jury trial. It’s not always the right choice, however, depending on (a) the nature [...]

Problem: A father with a teen-age son was in a quandary.  Son, recently rendered disabled as a result of a central nervous system virus, needed funds to pay for his rehabilitation and ongoing medical care. [...]

Problem: For most families, “estate planning” is often a difficult undertaking.  This stems from the notion that planning for the transfer of assets from one generation to the next must include a discussion about illness, [...]

Problem: Proposed package copy for a consumer product contains a claim that the product’s performance is the fastest in its class. When asked to provide support for the claim, the brand manager states that the [...]

Problem:  A retailer offered a Facebook sweepstakes to drive traffic to its Facebook page with the chance to win a prize valued at $19.95.  The retailer believed that, for such an insignificant prize and because [...]

Problem: A subcontractor signed an agreement with a general contractor in connection construction of a commercial building for a national retailer. The subcontractor’s portion of the work consisted of installing most of the equipment in [...]

Problem: Two childhood friends start a business.  Over the course of five years, the business has grown but the revenue has plateaued.  Overhead and revenue have increased each year;  but, not in step with the [...]