Houston Business Fraud Lawyer
Unmasking Corporate Deceit: Defend Your Business with a Business Fraud Lawyer
Business fraud can have significant impacts on different-sized businesses. It exposes your reputation and finances to catastrophic results. The business landscape is becoming more complex, and protecting your interests requires working with a business fraud lawyer to guide you.
We review the different options and help you to take action. A business fraud lawyer is your first line of defense and rapid response when fraud is discovered. Whether you are a start-up or a multinational corporation, a business fraud attorney is critical in protecting your interests.
What is Corporate Deceit?
Corporate deceit focuses on a range of actions in conducting business. These include concealment, embezzlement, misrepresentations, and making false statements. Businesses are victims of unscrupulous employees, partners, contractors, and competitors. Their actions threaten the viability, reputation, and stability of your business.
Several elements must exist to show fraud, including
- Making a material representation
- The representation is false
- The parties making the representation knew it was false
- Other parties believed and acted on these false representations
- The other parties counted on and believed these false representations as facts
- The other parties suffered damages because of the false representations
- Proving fraud is showing damages and how everything relates to your situation using the law and case precedent.
A skilled business fraud attorney will guide and protect you. We work with you to identify possible vulnerabilities and prevent them. Our team is ready to take aggressive action if you are the victim of fraud and your business is suffering.
The business fraud attorneys at the Weisblatt Law Firm have decades of experience handling these cases. Our team works with you to prevent fraud and take action once it happens to you. We are here to protect your interests and will guide you. Contact us at (713) 666-1981 to schedule your free phone consultation with a business fraud attorney.
The Types of Fraud
Texas law recognizes different types of business fraud, including
- Constructive fraud
- Fraudulent misrepresentation
- Negligent misrepresentation
- Statutory fraud
- Fraudulent inducement
- Fraudulent nondisclosure
- Fraudulent transfer
- Liable
- Slander
- Defamation
- Overcharging
- Unfair business practices.
Proving fraud requires showing a reliance on the information to influence your decisions. The defendant’s misrepresentations caused the damages, and you were justified in believing them.
The challenge is showing that you got all the facts to protect your interests and failed to see the red flags. Texas law requires showing that you did not mindlessly follow the representations made by the defendant but took the time to investigate these claims and verify the accuracy of the information.
We recommend working with a business fraud lawyer to guide you. The laws for proving fraud are complex and require a skilled professional with experience in these cases. Our team will look out for you and help to protect your business against fraud. We understand the challenges you are facing and are here to help.
The Impacts of Business Fraud
Business fraud is something that occurs frequently, with 16,277 reports last year. It can have devastating consequences on your business, including the following:
Financial losses
Fraud drains your business of the financial resources it needs to grow and can create challenging losses. In some cases, fraud could lead to bankruptcy or total collapse of the business.
Damage to Reputation
A damaged reputation hurts the brand image of your business with customers and suppliers. It destroys trust and could imperil your operations.
Disruption to Operations
Fraud could disrupt your business’s daily activities, diverting resources from growing organically.
The Loss of Confidence
Fraud causes a loss of confidence in your business among suppliers, customers, and employees. You could see real consequences because of fraud, such as lost talent, income, and investments.
Legal Consequences
Businesses involved in fraud have legal exposure to investigations, fines, and ceasing operations.
We recommend speaking with a skilled business fraud lawyer about your situation. Our team works with you to prevent and help you manage these issues.
Proving Business Fraud Requires a Skilled Attorney
Proving fraud requires showing that the defendant had the intention to defraud you. We collect evidence to show that this happened and guide you through the process of taking action. In any legal proceeding, you must do extensive research and show how the evidence points to fraud and damages to your business.
We gather evidence and take aggressive action to protect your interests and prevent fraud. Our team uses its knowledge and experience to guide you through the most complex to simple cases.
How to Recover Compensation for Business Fraud?
Recovering compensation for business fraud requires skill in linking the fraud to actual dollar amounts in damages. It requires showing intent and backing up your claims with other evidence, including:
- The defendant made false representations.
- The defendant failed to show reasonable care in communicating the facts.
- You suffered financial losses from the wrong information given to you by the defendant.
Proving that the defendant tried to deceive you requires working with an attorney that can effectively prove these cases. Our team has decades of experience handling these cases, and we will guide you. Texas statutes are confusing, and proving fraud to recover damages requires knowing and applying the law correctly.
The Damages of Fraud
Fraud requires proving that you were wronged and taking the appropriate legal action at the right time. You have different options, such as filing a civil suit or pursuing criminal charges. The actions depend on the evidence and the extent of the losses. Some of the damages that you could receive in these cases include:
- Economic damages showing losses from the fraud, such as a decline in profits
- Statutory damages
- A judge or jury may award punitive damages for the defendant’s conduct and to discourage this behavior in the future.
Our team works with you to identify possible damages and show the extent of them on your business. Proving fraud requires knowing the law and working with an attorney who can help you. Our decades of experience working on these cases ensure your case moves forward and no stone is left unturned. We pursue every lead and seek compensation for your losses from the defendant’s actions.
Why Choose Us?
The attorneys at the Weisblatt Law Firm have decades of experience working on business fraud cases. Successfully proving fraud requires skill, and we use our knowledge and experience to look out for you. Our team will only stop once we have pursued the different avenues to ensure you are protected.
We handle all aspects of your case, including:
- Investigating how the fraud occurred and gathering evidence to support our claims
- Representing you in court and building a strong case to protect your interests
- Establishing internal controls that are transparent and compliant
- Conducting reviews of contracts for transparency and fraud detection and guiding you
- Risk management to address vulnerabilities and proactively deal with threats
- Reputation management prevents damage to your brand name and the business’s image.
These are some of the reasons why you need to work with our skilled business fraud lawyers. We will guide you through various situations to prevent and address fraud. We understand the damage it can cause your business and are here to help.
You need to work with a skilled professional that knows the law and has experience with these cases. Contact us at (713) 666-1981 to schedule your free telephone consultation with a business fraud attorney.
These cases are challenging, and you want to work with skilled professionals that will guide you. Our team reviews the options and creates a customized strategy to protect your business. We give you objective legal advice that looks out for your best interests.
Attorney Andrew Weisblatt
Mr. Weisblatt has practiced continuously since becoming licensed in 1992 and has represented businesses ranging in size from one person start-up ventures to multi-national corporations employing hundreds of people in multiple countries. From 2005 through 2009 Mr. Weisblatt was in-house counsel and chief operating officer of a multi-national corporation in the steel products industry. That in-house position provided valuable insight into how businesses work and what they actually need from their lawyers – both in-house and outside counsel. Attorney Bio
