If there is one thing that announces the coming of summer, it is opening day of the Farmington Farmers Market. And this Saturday, the bell will ring again at the Walter E. Sundquist Pavilion and Riley Park in downtown Farmington, and the market will…
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Do you and your business partners have a buy-sell agreement? If so, do you pay attention to its requirements? The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments in Connelly v. Internal Revenue Service, a dispute over the value of a closely-held corporat…
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On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission published its long-anticipated, final rule seeking to ban non-compete agreements in the United States. The FTC claims non-competes violate Section 5 of the FTC Act, which makes “unfair methods of competition…
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You took all the right steps. You set up your estate plan, made sure your final wishes were clear, and provided for your beneficiaries upon your passing. But what happens in Michigan when your beneficiary passes away before you and you don’t update…
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We are honored to share that, for a fifth consecutive year, Wright Beamer has been chosen as one of Metropolitan Detroit’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®! The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® program is conducted by the indepe…
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With the rapid spread of legalized marijuana throughout the United States, employers have struggled with testing tools (e.g., urine and hair samples) dependent on metabolized CBD, which yield positive results many days or even months after the tested…
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Renaissance writers and brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, wanted to write a hit play but found themselves competing with the long shadow of the time’s most popular playwright: William Shakespeare. When advised by a soothsayer that their success lies…
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Governor Whitmer recently extended the deadline under Michigan’s Marketable Record Title Act (MRTA) to September 29, 2025. Certain property interests are extinguished if they are not protected by appearance or reference in a property’s chain of t…
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This month marks three years since Wright Beamer made an Earth Day pledge: for every estate plan completed with our firm, we would have a tree planted through our partnership with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit dedicated to global reforestation. In th…
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Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) 2023 rule for determining joint employer status. The joint employer rule determines when two businesses are legally…
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