• On Sep, 23, 2016
•  James DeMartini

Understanding a Variety of Business Entities Ed Note: This is the second part of a detailed discussion with Sonoma County Business Lawyer Jim DeMartini which covers the main issues you must consider when starting a new business in Sonoma County.  This interview was conducted in April 2016.  Jim: When we last spoke we were talking […]

• On Jun, 14, 2016
•  James DeMartini

Startup Advice: Santa Rosa Business Attorney, James F. DeMartini Ed Note: This is the first part of a detailed discussion with Santa Rosa Business Attorney Jim DeMartini which covers the main issues you must consider when starting a new business in Sonoma County.  This interview was conducted in April 2016.  Bill: Hi Jim. I want […]

• On Feb, 03, 2016
•  James DeMartini

Small claims courts generally all operate the same in California. The judges are “pro tem”, meaning that they have not been elected or appointed by the governor to the Superior Court bench. So, locally, they are experienced Sonoma County trial lawyers with years of experience in court.

• On Dec, 05, 2015
•  James DeMartini

Usually my first response is that “employment law is generally always unfair to the employee”. An oral contract of employment is usually no more than an agreement by an employer to pay an employee for work. That’s it.

• On Sep, 25, 2015
•  James DeMartini

Insurance companies know that juries struggle with appropriate compensation for soft tissue injuries and offer significantly less in compensation for a soft tissue injury than one involving broken bones, even though the soft tissue injury might be just as painful, or more so, and may be just as long lasting as the injury involving a broken bone.

• On Aug, 14, 2015
•  James DeMartini

The courts in California are not expanding the marijuana compliance protections created by the legislature but are, in fact, limiting them dramatically.

• On Jun, 19, 2015
•  James DeMartini

I can’t tell you how many clients have said to me “Don’t worry Jim, I have prescriptive rights to get to my property.”

• On May, 31, 2015
•  James DeMartini

An S corporation permits the earnings and expenses of the corporation to pass through the corporation directly to the corporate shareholders. This avoids corporate profits from being taxed at the corporate level, and then later, taxed again as shareholders’ dividends.