Robson & Robson P.C.

08/07/2025

Help us welcome our newest team member John R. Timmer! He brings our clients decades of experience in complex commercial litigation matters. Learn more here: https://conta.cc/4le2Pdq

05/03/2024

Strategies for Better Non-Competes

Attorney Edward Robson shares his strategies for better non-compete clauses. Learn more at https://robsonlaw.com/

04/30/2024

5 Tips For Writing Conflict Emails

Attorney Edward Robson shares five tips for writing conflict emails. He says you should keep your emails in context [02:00], write your email as if it will b...

04/26/2024

Confidentiality agreements have become a ubiquitous feature of commercial litigation. This is due, in part, to the expansion of e-discovery and the exchange of ever-increasing numbers of documents. Pre-production review of the thousands or tens of thousands of emails involved in the average commercial case create significant challenges, both in terms of cost to the client and the tight discovery deadlines frequently imposed by courts. A confidentiality agreement, embodied in a stipulated order, can be a convenient way to expedite initial production of documents. It can reduce concerns about the risks of inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information potentially allowing pre-production review to proceed more quickly.

Confidentiality agreements have become a ubiquitous feature of commercial litigation. This is due, in part, to the expansion of e-discovery and the exchange of ever-increasing numbers of documents. Pre-production review of the thousands or tens of thousands of emails involved in the average commerci...

04/23/2024

What happens when a majority owner makes a bad-faith capital call?

I focus my practice on commercial litigation and in particular on representing business owners in disputes with their business partners. As part of my job I ...

04/19/2024

PA Superior Court channels Spider-Man - Rules that in business partnerships, with great power comes great responsibility (including fiduciary duties to other partners) https://bit.ly/3ne7Qr9

04/16/2024

In disputes among the owners of a closely held company, involuntary judicial dissolution is the nuclear option. When a group of shareholders successfully petitions a court to dissolve and then liquidate their company because the owners reached an impasse they could not overcome, there will be no more company to speak of. While that might have been the intended outcome for the petitioning shareholders, the fire-sale price the company’s assets will probably fetch on the open market is an unpleasant accompanying pill they’ll have to swallow.

In Pennsylvania, Manufactured Deadlocks are Unlikely to Trigger Judicial Dissolution In disputes among the owners of a closely held company, involuntary

04/12/2024

When shareholders of a company believe the leaders of the company have breached their fiduciary duties to it, they can bring a lawsuit against those leaders in one of two ways. Shareholders can bring the suit in their own names (a direct suit), or they can bring it on behalf of the company if the company failed to bring claims against the leaders on its own (a derivative suit). If the injuries the shareholders are alleging were only suffered by the company, they cannot move forward with any direct claims.

When shareholders of a company believe the leaders of the company have breached their fiduciary duties to it, they can bring a lawsuit against those

04/09/2024

When a co-shareholder purchases the debt obligations of the company without partners' knowledge https://youtu.be/yZ_mTZGBIco?si=zCS0ZNHtE-1914aP

04/02/2024

Employee non-competes

If you're an employee with a non-compete in your employment agreement, and you're considering leaving your job and working for a competitor, you may be think...

03/29/2024

There are many ways that an owner of a closely-held business can use their superior financial resources to gain an advantage over their co-owners in a dispute. One common way is the use of a capital call provision to dilute the interest of minority owners or to create off-setting claims against them. “Weaponizing” capital call and dilution provisions can be an effective sharp elbow tactic in business divorce situations but practitioners should be wary of the risks that come with it.

There are many ways that an owner of a closely-held business can use their superior financial resources to gain an advantage over their co-owners in a dispute. One common way is the use of a capital call provision to dilute the interest of minority owners or to create off-setting claims against them...