• posted: Nov. 30, 2022
• Estate Planning
• health care surrogate,  living will

Every adult resident of Kentucky should have a living will and designation of health care surrogate. This is a legal document designed to protect you if you become incapacitated and/or Read More

• posted: Oct. 30, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Business Law
• business divorce

Dissolving a business or ousting one or more of its owners can be catastrophic. In some ways, a business breakup is akin to a married couple divorcing. People who once Read More

• posted: Sep. 30, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• defamation,  diversity of citizenship

Making a false statement about another person may be grounds for the victim to file a defamation action to recover money damages for harm to his or her reputation. Defamation Read More

• posted: Aug. 30, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Business Law
• business breakup

It’s common for a business to have more than one owner, each with a substantial financial stake in the company. But partnerships don’t always last, either because businesses fail, owners Read More

• posted: Jul. 30, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Defamation
• libel,  twibel,  twitter

Twitter, a social media platform founded in 2006, has become a phenomenally popular outlet through which individuals around the world send and receive news and opinion on a wide variety Read More

• posted: Jun. 30, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Business Law
• business plan,  personal assets,  inadequate capital

Some startup companies become successful businesses, but many more fail because they don’t take the steps necessary to put their companies on a workable basis or they take ill-advised actions Read More

• posted: May 15, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Professional Malpractice
• litigation,  professional malpractice

Attorneys are only human and it is possible that your lawyer made a serious mistake or gave you poor advice that caused you to suffer a negative outcome in your Read More

• posted: Apr. 15, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Intellectual Property
• libel,  defamation per se,  pinitive damages

If you own a business or engage in any other profession in Kentucky, you depend on your reputation to draw the customers or clients you need. Even in your private Read More

• posted: Mar. 15, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Civil Litigation
• civil disputes,  mediation,  alternative dispute resolution

Mediation, a quicker and more cost-effective alternative to litigation, has long been a voluntary option for parties in civil disputes. Now, the Kentucky Supreme Court has adopted rule changes that Read More

• posted: Feb. 15, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Business Law
• asset purchase,  due diligence,  stock purchase

In the small business arena, companies are usually bought and sold in one of two ways: by stock purchase or by asset purchase. In a stock purchase, the buyer assumes Read More

• posted: Jan. 15, 2022
• Todd McMurtry
• Business Law
• business divorce,  commercial mediator,  equal shares,  small business owners

Nobody enters into a commercial venture anticipating that the enterprise will fail. Nevertheless, small and start-up businesses are particularly susceptible to dissolution or drastic changes in ownership. Relationships sour, peoples’ Read More

• posted: Dec. 16, 2021
• Todd McMurtry
• Business Law
• business defamation,  loss of reputation

Businesses can live and die by their reputations. A commercial enterprise can spend decades building a reputation as a trustworthy provider of quality goods or services. Although robust competition is Read More

• posted: Nov. 15, 2021
• Todd McMurtry
• Employment Law
• employment law,  vaccination

As the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to rampage across the state and the country, an increasing number of Kentucky businesses are requiring their employees to get vaccinated as a Read More

• posted: Oct. 15, 2021
• Todd McMurtry
• Intellectual Property
• Communications Decency Act,  facebook,  litigation

Facebook, a social media platform that its founders said would unite the world, unfortunately provides a forum for spreading misinformation and smearing reputations. If you believe you have been defamed Read More

• posted: Sep. 15, 2021
• Todd McMurtry
• Intellectual Property
• anti-SLAPP

Wealthy companies and individuals rarely welcome news reporting and other commentary critical of the way they go about their business. In fact, they will sometimes go to great lengths to Read More

• posted: Aug. 15, 2021
• Justin Whittaker
• Wills & Probate
• estate administrator,  executor,  personal liability,  personal representative

A personal representative is someone charged with handling the administration of a decedent’s estate, whether as an executor under a will or as a court-appointed administrator if the decedent had Read More