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Episode 10 - Ron Coleman
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Is it a contract or a tort?⚖️ If you don’t know the difference, you should. Especially if you're running a business. In this episode, Ron Coleman, top litigation & IP lawyer (yes, the one representing Presidents 👀), breaks down the two major types of legal cases in the simplest way.
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There's two broad categories of law
cases, right? Criminal and civil. Then
within civil, there's contracts.
Two people voluntarily get into a
relationship and then one says yes, you
did, no, you didn't. And then there are
tors, which is where somebody damages
somebody else through his conduct.
Trademark, copyright, patent
infringement are kinds of tors. So in a
tort
we even if you have a company even if
you have you set up you know a company
for purposes of limiting your liability
the law is still that a person a a
torque can ultimately only be
committed by a person. So even if it's
the company doing it, a person pushed
the button that made the company do it.