Legal Envirnoment of Business

Legal Environment of Business

John Castro

University of Phoenix

Bus/415-Business Law

Yolanda Nimmer-Wiliams

April 27, 2011

Legal Environment

The relationship between business and the legal environment are based on many different laws that prevent unethical practices to businesses. Ethical regulations allow businesses to operate affectively and efficient. Ethics play a major role in the moral principle and values when analyzing certain situations and allows people to make the right decision. Other laws are in place to regulate occupational qualifications, governing diversity in the workplace and promoting employee health and safety. As a manager it is imperative that I am able to operate ethically, safely, and effective to increase profit for our shareholders.

The main Social responsibility of a business is to maximize profits for the shareholders, but at the same time is held responsible for employees, suppliers, communities, and people were these companies are located.

The stages of a civil case are from initiation to trial to the stages of appeal.

Initiation is when a plaintiff files a complaint alleging the defendant maltreated the plaintiff by breaking the law. In most case the plaintiff is asking for monetary settlement. The trial different parties attempt to settle the case by agreeing to resolve the matter but fail to reach an agreement and eventually have to go to trial. An appeal process is almost evident when losing party loses. While not satisfied with the outcome the losing party leaves it in the appellate courts to review and look for mistakes in the law. In most appealed civil cases if there is not sufficient evidence to reverse the court’s decision the appellate court will send it back to trial.

Reference

The U.S. Legal System

By Mark F. Radcliffe and Diane Brinson 1 of DLA Piper LLP (US)

http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Jan/1/241487.html