By Alexis Preskar Among bills regarding heavily debated topics like energy, education and civil rights, the Ohio Legislature is also considering two bills with seemingly lower stakes. After all, who doesn’t like charities and puppies? Both bills have little to no...
A major redevelopment project in Strongsville cleared a significant hurdle this week with a successful rezoning of the property that was formerly home to Medical Mutual on Royalton Road. Kohrman Jackson & Krantz managing partner Jon Pinney and partner Matt Viola...
By Patrick Tulley For most parents, the idea of their children being able to access a significant inheritance in their late teens or early 20s is unsettling. Will they be mature enough to make good decisions with the money? What’s the best way to prepare them to use...
Child custody and parentage laws are complex in their own right, let alone the complications that arise when a couple brings a surrogate into the situation. The definition of who is a parent can become even fuzzier. According to Andrew Zashin, co-managing partner at...
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Cyber Unit filed charges in its very first cyber fraud case, and its target was PlexCoin, a cryptocurrency startup based on the app platform Ethereum, and the company's founder, Dominic Lacroix. PlexCoin...
by Rob Gilmore Imagine a franchise sandwich shop located here in Cleveland that employs a dozen workers. Though it's part of a franchise, the restaurant is independently owned, pays its workers directly and manages their day-to-day supervision. And yet those same...
On Dec. 7, the National Business Institute will host a Divorce Law Boot Camp in Cleveland with a faculty of divorce law veterans that includes KJK Partner Jim Lane, one of only a few attorneys in Ohio to have earned the designation of Certified Family Relations Law...
On October 30, Morgan Stanley announced that it would leave the Protocol for Broker Recruiting — an agreement among more than 1,500 financial firms that lays out rules for financial advisers to follow when they leave one firm for another. The decision shocked the...
From the Watch Your Language Series, by Stephen Richman As is commonly known, ignorance of the law is no excuse to one who is charged with a crime. In real estate, however, while ignorance of the law will rarely result in a prison term, it will almost always result in...
Bitcoin has been in the news recently for its meteoric rise in value this year, achieving an all-time high of more than $7,500 even after China outlawed initial coin offerings, or ICOs, in September. An ICO is a crowdfunding tool in which a newly-issued cryptocurrency...