Partner and shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, contracts, trade secrets, and other Kentucky business litigation.
A supplier’s late delivery cost you a season of sales. A contractor’s defective work shut down your restaurant for six weeks. A former partner’s breach of a noncompete took your three biggest accounts. In each case the direct loss is only part of the story. The real damage is the business you did not do….
Your business partner mentions, almost in passing, that he bought the building next door. The one your company had been trying to lease for a year. Or you learn that the big account your partner “couldn’t close” for the company signed a contract last month with a new LLC that has your partner’s name on…
Two owners, fifty percent each. One wants to expand, the other wants to sell. One wants to fire the office manager, the other hired her. Neither can outvote the other, neither will budge, and the company drifts while they argue. Deadlock is not just frustrating; it can be legally fatal to a business. Kentucky law…
Your best salesperson leaves for a competitor. Two weeks later, your largest customers start getting calls that reference pricing only your company knew. Or the reverse: you hired someone from a competitor, and now that competitor’s lawyer is accusing your business of theft. Both scenarios land in the same body of law, the Kentucky Uniform…
A manager diverts a lucrative contract to his own side company. A majority shareholder pays herself a salary three times what the job is worth. A director approves a lease with his brother-in-law at double the market rate. In each case the person harmed is the company itself, and under Kentucky law that creates a…
You own thirty percent of a company you helped build. You have not seen a distribution in two years. The majority owners pay themselves generous salaries, hold meetings you are not invited to, and answer requests for financial statements with silence. You cannot sell your interest because nobody buys minority stakes in closely held companies….
If you own part of a Kentucky limited liability company, the people running it owe you something. The question is what, exactly. Kentucky’s LLC Act gives a narrower, more contract-driven answer than most owners expect, and the difference matters the moment a co-owner starts treating company money or company deals as personal property. Where the…
Quick answer: Tortious interference is a Kentucky tort that lets you sue a third party who intentionally and improperly caused someone to breach a contract with you, or disrupted a prospective business relationship you reasonably expected to benefit from. You must prove the defendant knew about the relationship, acted improperly, and caused you actual damages….
Quick answer: To win a fraud claim in Kentucky you must prove, by clear and convincing evidence, a material misrepresentation of fact that was false, made knowingly or recklessly, intended to induce reliance, actually and reasonably relied upon, and that caused injury. A broken promise alone is not fraud, but proven fraud can support punitive…
Quick answer: Unjust enrichment lets you recover in Kentucky when there is no enforceable contract but the other party received a benefit from you, knew about it, and kept it under circumstances that make it unfair not to pay. The remedy is the value of the benefit conferred, and the claim is generally unavailable where…