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Why Employers Sometimes Break The Law When They Fail To Pay Their Interns
About 50% of summer internships are unpaid. However, many employers are unaware that an unpaid internship may be considered illegal if the internship...
InStore Program Offers Forgivable Loans To Small Businesses
Philadelphia InStore Program Offers Forgivable Loans for Business Improvements The amount of the forgivable loan may be anywhere from as little as...
Restrictive Covenant Contained In Lease Is Enforced
Landlord Incentives in Retail Leasing There are many incentives that a commercial landlord may provide to convince a potential retail tenant to lease...
Does An Employee Need A Reason To Terminate?
Unfortunately for these employees, Pennsylvania, like most other states, is an “employee-at will” state, meaning that, subject to a few limited...
Tax Incentives For Property Owners To Improve Their Properties
If you are contemplating developing vacant land or rehabilitating an existing building structure located in the city of Philadelphia, there are a...
Obtaining Tax Abatements And Exemptions For Improvements Made To Real Estate In Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Property Assessment administers what is commonly known as the contractor’s tax exemption program and also the...
Homeowners In Philadelphia Can Pay Last Year’s Real Estate Taxes Pending Tax Assessment Appeal
If you are renovating a residential property in Philadelphia, you may be eligible for a valuable real estate tax abatement—but you must act quickly...
Judicial Sale Doesn’t Stifle Mortgage’s Priority Lien Interest
What almost happened in In re Estate of Landis, 2014 Pa. Super. LEXIS 9 (Jan. 15, 2014), before the Pennsylvania Superior Court intervened is a...
Non-Compete Agreements: A Necessity For Your Business
Every business possesses a proprietary interest in its client base, which typically takes years to develop, and in its unique business plans, methods...
How Obamacare Will Impact Your Business This Year
Starting this year, the federal government is imposing a new tax on health insurance carriers based upon their share of the so-called “fully-insured...