Business Law Insights from Todd B. Nurick

Employment authorization rules have changed significantly, and an expiration date alone may no longer tell an employer everything it needs to know. This article examines Form I-9 compliance, EAD extensions and revocations, E-Verify, reverification, anti-discrimination risk, and what General Counsel should build into the compliance process.

An NDA protects confidential information. A non-circumvention provision protects valuable introductions and business opportunities. Here’s when both protections may belong in the same document.

Employee or independent contractor status can change as a role evolves. Businesses should review control, independence, payment, tools, integration, and legal exposure before a worker classification becomes a problem.

Starting a new business takes more than filing an LLC. Here are the legal issues founders should address before the first contract, hire, investor, or dispute.

Fractional General Counsel can help businesses manage contracts, employment issues, AI risk, disputes, vendors, and legal strategy before problems become expensive.

A lawyer letter can create a record, demand action, and avoid litigation. But cease-and-desist letters aren’t magic, and they need legal support before they go out on firm letterhead.

AI can help employers organize workplace investigations, but it can also create bias, privacy, privilege, and discovery risks if the company doesn’t control how the tool is used.

The Supreme Court left a $168 million trade-secret judgment in place after a company hired approximately 2,200 employees from a customer. Here’s what businesses should do before hiring from competitors, customers, or vendors.

Hidden fees and drip pricing still draw scrutiny. Here’s what businesses should review now in pricing, disclosures, contracts, and cancellation flow.

How should a Pennsylvania employer document repeated employee infractions before termination, especially when the employee works out of state? Here is a practical Human Resources (HR) and business-law guide.

Quantum computing still sounds futuristic, but the legal planning issues are already here. Here’s what owners and general counsel should be reviewing now.

Are noncompetes still enforceable in 2026? The FTC ban isn’t in effect, but restrictive covenants still require careful state-law analysis.

What are the real differences between in-house counsel and outside general counsel? Here’s a practical business-law look at structure, cost, flexibility, and function.

The UK has opened an antitrust probe into Microsoft’s business software practices. Here is what companies should review now about bundling, cloud licensing, AI integration, and vendor lock-in.

This one is not about AI. It is about tariffs, contracts, pricing, and who eats the cost when trade law changes faster than your paper does.

AI hallucinations are becoming a real consumer-protection and business-law issue. Here is what companies should review now about disclosures, vendor contracts, and AI claims.

Meta’s reported plan to capture employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training raises broader questions about privacy, labor law, contracts, governance, and internal policy. Here is what companies should review now.

Florida’s criminal investigation into OpenAI over the FSU shooting may test new AI liability theories. Here is the unbiased business-law analysis companies should be paying attention to now.

Companies are using ChatGPT and Claude for real business problems, but recent court decisions are raising serious questions about privilege, work product, and discoverability. Here is what businesses should do now.

A new court challenge to the 10% global tariff is raising immediate contract, pricing, and supply-chain questions for companies. Here is what businesses should review now.