Nevada Business Legal Questions

People have licensing arrangements with corporations all the time without being stockholders -- the two are completely unrelated. You will need to have an attorney prepare a contract under the terms of which the corporation repurchases your shares in return for royalties. Contact our office, please, if we can assist you in doing so.... Read More

As a general matter, this practice is legal. It may become problematic if you are promised a certain number of hours or full days of employment and the employer rescinds the promise. It doesn't sound as if any promises are being made, and you are well aware of your employer's flakiness. Sounds like time to get a new job.... Read More

My make discriminatory decisions every day -- to wear red instead of green, to eat apples instead of oranges. Unless a form of discrimination is prohibited by law (such as on the basis of race or religion), it is perfectly lawful. No law prohibits an employer from favoring an employee that the employer simply likes better.... Read More

It is not particularly clear what your question is. As a general matter, if you use the services of a taxi, even if it is very late, you have to pay for them. Your refusal to pay for services that you requested might constitute a theft claim under applicable state criminal theft-of-services law.  ... Read More

As a general matter, a bank does not have the right to charge your account unless the charge is properly payable from your account. In the absence of a specific statement from the bank regarding why they deem themselves entitled to charge your account, we have to guess. A reasonable guess is that they treat the business account as your personal account and deem you to be personally liable for the overdraft. Since the bank as already helped itself to your money, the burden of proving that the bank has acted improperly may fall on you. The transfers in and out of the business account that you undertook in your personal capacity are problematic. Although you see them as "proof" of something, all they really prove is that you failed adequately to distinguish between your personal funds and the funds of the business. In other words, in terms of legal art, you treated the business account as an "incorporated pocketbook" and provide the bank with an excuse to pierce the corporate veil in order to hold you personally liable for the debts of the business. Banks will usually negotiate over these matters and will often settle them if they are threatened with litigation or sued. You should consult with an attorney regarding this claim.... Read More

Your predicament happens very frequently in the creation and formation of a business.  Regardless of ownership percentages, the scenario set forth above appears to indicate that while corporate formation was complete, no capitalization of the company ever occurred and that the Company for all intents and purposes has no capital or assets.  From the question that you have posed, it appears that the Patent remains in your name personally and that you have not assigned the Patent to the LLC. This means that you still hold the most valuable asset individually and can simply dissociate yourself from the LLC and commence dissolution proceedings.  Dissolution and winding up should be addressed in your Operating Agreement.  If not, pursuant to Chapter 86 of the Nevada Revised Statutes, there is a statutory mechanism for dissolution. ... Read More

It is standard in commercial real estate for a Landlord to indicate that Common Area Maintenance costs [CAMs] will be a pass-through to the tenants (either in total for single tenant properties or pro rata for multi-tenant spaces). Whether ten percent is arbitrarily high is in some measure related to how large the CAMs are.  The lease specifies that the Landlord will pass through any costs which Landlord incurs (which is generally a maintenance company) plus a 10% fee for Landlord to supervise the maintenance company.   As to why would you need 2 companies, the answer usually is that you do not need 2 companies/entitles to supervise the property and this provision works to the benefit of the Landlord because the time and effort expended by the Landlord to do a pro rata division does not equate to 10% of the CAMs.  But the provision is not so unconscionable that it is voidable.... Read More

Amazon's policy controls. As a private marketplace, they are at liberty to limit the nature, types and prices of the goods and services that can be sold. The fact that other sellers may violate the policy does not mean it is not binding on you and that you will not be liable for a breach. You have no legal right to participate in Amazon's marketplace and no claim for any kind of damages as a result of Amazon's insistence that you adhere to their rules as a condition of admission to their platform. If other sellers are engaged in unfair competition with you, you may have a claim against them.... Read More

You do not explain what accounts for the supplemental charge. If there was additional damage to the vehicle that was not evident to the adjuster, then you should make a request to your insurance carrier to pay it; if the carrier refuses, chances are you are still liable for it. If the supplemental charge is merely an arbitrary amount being charged by the dealer, you should consider your legal remedies, including the possibility of a small claims action.... Read More

As a general matter, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, personal property belongs to the party who paid for it. You can take possession of the tool (it sounds as if you had possession of the tool until you returned it to the toolmaker) if you can do so without breach of the peace.... Read More