Alcohol and Craft Brewery law
With offices in both North and South Carolina, Barnwell Whaley alcohol and craft brewery law attorneys work with beverage industry businesses to build, protect and manage their assets. Our full service Carolinas law firm has attorneys are skilled in guiding owners through dram shop and liquor liability matters, as well as general business matters including contract and lease negotiations, employment matters, intellectual property, premises and products liability, among others.
Barnwell Whaley dram shop and liquor liability attorneys work to assist North and South Carolina businesses in complying with all state regulations as well as defend business owners with dram shop, social host, tavern-keeper and alcohol liability claims in both states.
Our business attorneys counsel owners though business formations, partnership agreements, commercial property transactions, contract negotiations, franchise agreements and more.
Barnwell Whaley employment attorneys work proactively with businesses to establish employment handbooks, contracts, and to protect trade secrets. In addition, we guide employers through the web of governmental regulations.
With regard to intellectual property, Barnwell Whaley IP attorneys assist businesses in protecting their brand – product names, merchandise, recipes and trade secrets. Our intellectual property attorneys have obtained thousands of trademarks on behalf of clients to protect their brands, products and reputations throughout the United States.
In addition to protecting brand identity, it is essential to protect recipes. Trade secrets are essential to success – proprietary information you do not want to fall into public domain or your competitor’s hands, be it recipes, formulas, methods, techniques, processes, customer lists, computer codes, etc. Barnwell Whaley intellectual property attorneys have experience counseling clients in these areas and drafting labor and employment documents to ensure that your recipes and methods stay in house.
Barnwell Whaley premises liability defense attorneys defend insurance companies, their insureds, self-insured businesses, and professionals against allegations of injury or property damage, and our products liability team represents businesses in litigation involving the design, manufacture, and sale of allegedly defective products.
Related areas of law:
Business law
Dram shop and liquor liability
Employment law
Restaurant and Hospitality law
Intellectual property
Unfair Competition law
Civil litigation