You spent eight months negotiating a $4.2 million distribution agreement with a Long Island City manufacturer. Contracts were signed on a Tuesday. The following Monday, your competitor met with the manufacturer's owner, showed him a spreadsheet full of half-truths about your credit history, and by Wednesday the manufacturer sent you a termination letter. That's not just bad luck — it may be tortious interference with contract in New York, one of the most powerful and least un

You just discovered that your VP of sales in Midtown has been funneling deals to a competitor her husband owns. Over the past two years, she's collected roughly $340,000 in salary, commissions, and bonuses while quietly steering your best clients away. You want her out — but firing her doesn't get your money back. The faithless servant doctrine in New York is the tool that does. It's one of the most powerful remedies in employer-side commercial litigation, and most business o