Recruiters are like the matchmakers of the business world, helping businesses find the perfect job candidates to fit their needs. Securing the best person for a role though can be a full-time job, which is why many companies rely on recruiters’ skills and networks to fill vacancies quickly.
An Obama-era Department of Labor (DOL) rule aimed at protecting retirement investors has been overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, casting further doubt on the rule’s future.
The fiduciary rule would require advisers to act in the best interests of retirement investors.
The Justice Department recently unveiled the largest ever coordinated investigation of elder fraud cases. In total, more than 250 defendants have been charged in schemes involving over one million senior victims and half a billion dollars in losses.
Victims may need to file civil charges in order to recover stolen funds.
Law firm billing rates continued to rise in 2017, according to a new report from LexisNexis. The report also found lower usage of alternative fee arrangements—such as contingency-fee litigation—that help to offset growing litigation costs.
Contingency-fee litigation is an alternative to high hourly rates.
The Business Trial Group is Florida’s largest contingency-fee commercial litigation practice. We charge no hourly fees for any matter because we believe that anyone with a meritorious claim deserves access to high-quality legal representation.
In the last two years there has been an explosion in cybercrimes targeting money wired in connection with real estate transactions. Perpetrators of these scams gain access to email correspondences about pending real estate closings and then send a phony email directing settlement funds to be wired into the scammer’s bank account—often to never be seen again.
Our attorneys can help recover money for victims of settlement-fund wire fraud.
When a third party recruiter submits a job candidate to a company and the company hires that candidate, the recruiter is typically entitled to compensation in the form of a recruitment fee (or placement fee). But in some cases, a company hires a candidate provided by a recruiter but fails to pay the recruiter.
We have recovered unpaid commissions for recruiters on a contingency-fee basis.
Navigating the securities markets can be a daunting task for both inexperienced and experienced investors alike. There are countless rules and regulations governing every facet of the sale and purchase of a security designed to protect investors from opportunistic brokers.
Clients who are sold unregistered securities and suffer losses may be able to file a legal claim.
Subcontractors who performed work on the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches say they are waiting to be paid ten months after the facility opened.
The $152 million ballpark that serves as the Florida home of the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals opened in West Palm Beach, Florida in February 2017. With spring training set to begin in February 2018, however, more than a dozen small businesses that worked on the project are still fighting to get paid in full.
Contingency-fee litigation is a boon for contractors with payment disputes.
The Business Trial Group recently filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, on behalf of a purchaser of a commercial property that was not properly zoned for its intended use.
The property in Juno Beach, Florida, was to be the new location for the purchaser’s private school. The Complaint alleges that the seller contractually agreed that the property was zoned for use as a private school. As a consequence, the buyer was forced to incur significant expenses to bring the property into compliance and continue operating the school.
A New York judge tossed out Harvey Keitel’s lawsuit against ETrade Financial Corp., finding that the online brokerage never entered into a legally binding agreement to pay the actor to star in television commercials.
Keitel argued the parties had a “meeting of the minds” but the Court disagreed.
