Business Disputes
Houston business dispute attorney Douglas M. McIntyre has 30+ years of experience helping businesses handle business disputes in Houston and surrounding counties.
Whether your business dispute is an employment dispute, a partnership dispute or a dispute between businesses, a business dispute can, and ideally should be handled without outside help, but that is not always possible.
If you need a Business Dispute lawyer contact Mr. McIntyre as your first step. An experienced business dispute attorney can offer suggestions and legal advice to control problems before they result in a lawsuit.
Mr. McIntyre offers "contingency fee commercial litigation arrangements". Most clients with legitimate claims for relief seem to prefer the contingency fee, since it can mean a recovery without paying anything to the lawyer.
MOST FREQUENTLY OCCURRING BUSINESS DISPUTES
Employment Disputes: Employment Disputes can arise for almost any reason. However, there are a number of employment disputes that are more likely to occur. These include: Discrimination based on sex, race, age disability, marital status, or any other form of employee discrimination; disagreement over salary or payment; maternity leave disputes; unfair dismissal charges; and disputes over representation at employment tribunals. Many businesses with 15 or fewer employees have little to worry about in these areas, and generally, the number of employees total, and their work location can effect what rights they may have. As a "rule of thumb" once management becomes aware of employee issues, do not ignore them, they will only get worse. Also, legal liability is often triggered when management is made aware of a problem. This happens usually when the employee affected complains to management.
Methods of dealing with all business and commercial disputes can include Mediation, Arbitration, state court lawsuits, federal court lawsuits, and the right to a jury trial. The jury trial is the ultimate method that all litigants in Texas are entitled to resort to in commercial litigation. Business lawyers must be ready to deal with this option should a business case get nasty. There is no way to stop the other side of the commercial litigation from resorting to their right to a jury trial, so all business lawyers have to ready for this potential remedy.
Disputes Between Businesses: Business to business relationships can be very helpful in creating larger deals and gaining support in the business world. But these relationships can be complicated and delicate. When disagreements arise between companies they usually involve something larger than a personal dispute between two parties and require some serious and professional legal action. Contracts are helpful at the start of a serious business relationship to actually avoid problems from getting worse. Contracts are a good exercise to get the parties started in thinking about resolution techniques, and potential exit strategies.
Partnership Disputes: Disputes within the leadership of a company can be much worse to deal with than disputes between companies. Partnerships in business can face irreparable damages, just like marriage partners can. And they can be as difficult to deal with as the divorce of a marriage. Often those disputes between owners can result in minority shareholder oppression. Minority shareholder oppression is an ongoing dispute where the majority becomes very harsh and oppressively unfair to the minority. Those disputes are one area where Doug McIntyre has extensive experience. While in commercial corporations and limited liability companies, the majority does indeed rule, they are bound by law to deal with the minority with some general fairness. This subject of minority shareholder oppression is too long for this web page, and many people are not aware of these rights. They often result from a change in leadership, personality conflicts, a disagreement in business values, hiring disputes, and financial difficulty.
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