Many small business owners worry about when the next recession will hit and how it will affect them. But recessions can be hard to...

General Data Protection Regulation—often referred to as GDPR—is a far-reaching regulatory framework that governs data protection and...

I have been a Trustee of the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation for almost 4 years now.  Over that time we have committed to giving away...

We often hear the arguments for NCAA student athletes to be paid something—anything—as a result of their schools and the NCAA using the...

Working with purpose driven companies is admittedly an enjoyable part of my job. Benefit corporations (or B-Corps) are...

This week, the nominee to head the FDA was grilled on Capitol Hill about plans to go after the sale of unregulated stem cell therapies in...

The purpose of the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT) is to strengthen the 2010 law that makes the depiction of animal...

While Verizon has installed FIOS in some neighborhoods in the City, it abruptly stopped laying the infrastructure needed when the company...

On Monday, the SEC filed an amended complaint against four former executives of Outcome Health, a private healthcare advertising company,...

Getting to work with founders and funds gives you a great perspective on what terms deserve some extra attention on a deal. Whether it's...

To turnaround a company like WeWork will take dedicated leadership, artful negotiation and compromise, and likely, a little bit of luck....

Epic, eClinicalWorks, NextGen. These are among the many Electronic Health Record (EHR) software makers coming under fire for causing...

It seems unlikely that the plaintiff would succeed on this matter as Burger King made it fairly clear that the Impossible Burger would be...

Allowing people to have emotional support animals is a hot topic these days.  How about a rabbit?

Today I had the pleasure of introducing Matt Helt from Techstars to my students at the University at Buffalo School of Law to talk about...

While the food delivery giant promised that "driver's keep 100% of their tips", in reality their policy did not work that way. Instead of...

You have been offered your dream job as an executive at a startup with a bright future. You were told you will be given an employment...

The partisan divide in Washington appears poised to take aim at America's private equity markets. These funds are responsible for...

Taylor Swift and Big Machine Label Group are never, ever, ever getting back together. Popstar and songwriter Taylor Swift tweeted an...

The Food and Drug Administration says Greenbrier International, Inc., d/b/a Dollar Tree is selling unsafe products. 

In a warning...

Interesting article in The New York Times yesterday about the concern among some in the tech start-up industry that the years of easy...

While hemp is certainly a cash crop on the rise due to CBD and other health related products, another market for hemp is opening up in...

Being a stone’s throw from Canada means Buffalo gets a lot of interest from Ontario startups looking to access US markets. How exactly to...

But for a few exceptions, purchases in NY State include the payment of sales tax.   While NY State charges a 4.00% state sales tax,...

Conservation easements are an excellent method for maintaining ownership of one’s land while not only prohibiting development but also...

I have often said Buffalo is not so much a small city but a big living room.  I can not tell you how many times I am introduced to a...

New York was the first state to put a ban in place on the sale of flavored vaping products. The Appellate Division Third Department in...

Deciding who counts as a founder, and how much equity each founder should receive are two of the hardest decisions faced by Start-ups....

For anyone even remotely familiar with employment law this comes as no surprise.  In fact, most attorneys have probably been...

Colliganlaw's support of the startup ecosystem is paying big dividends!  Helping to found the Buffalo Angels, Launch New York,...

This proposed new rule could help reduce manufacturing costs for medical marijuana companies by allowing them to buy hemp grown by local...

The development of Buffalo’s East Side has been talked about for years, but nothing has ever come of it. With the State’s investment,...

Recently, an employment discrimination lawsuit was filed against both McDonald's and the individual franchise where the employee worked.

Google's "Project Nightingale" is a cloud-based data mining initiative that proposes to analyze protected patient health information for...

Google (or perhaps more accurately its parent company Alphabet) steadily moving into banking raises some interesting questions about...

"Investors have an opportunity to infuse greater rationality into their decision-making process by consistently framing their questions...

Last week the SEC amended a complaint it had previously filed against an online auction portal and its CEO to add additional claims...

Every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at JAM Parkside. This is an event geared specifically to founders in the Buffalo area. The facilitated round...

It's been incredibly rewarding to open opportunities to students with partners like LaunchNY and 43North, while helping entrepreneurs...

American agricultural producers have been under tremendous market pressures resulting in an increase in bankruptcy filings. Frankly,...

WeWork is divesting assets, closing ventures, and telling investors it will reduce staff. All while facing a class-action lawsuit from an...

Income generated from rental property can receive the benefit of the Sec. 199A Qualified Business Deduction if your rental business meets...

After some more-than-disappointing IPOs with Uber, Slack, and WeWork, SoftBank faced some much-deserved criticism. What remains to be...

This year we've seen a number of high-value startups hit public markets with mixed reception. 

Investigators from the FBI, HUD and the IRS are at City Hall executing a warrant. Details seem to be trickling in slowly on what exactly...

What a week it was for Buffalo’s entrepreneurs. While I was homesick, 43North killed it in front of a packed house at Sheas with its...