Charlie Shah is an Attorney with the law firm Christian & Small.

Eckert Seamans' hospitality attorneys provide legal and business advice to clients involved in virtually every aspect of the hospitality industry ranging from hotel owners, management companies, lenders and developers to franchisors and franchisees and restaurant owners and operators. 

Pennsylvania Hotel Law Library on Mergers & Acquisitions:

• The Importance of Contract Management Systems: Renewed and Revisited (October 2009 Legal Newsletter) - One often overlooked source of possible cost savings – and even increased revenue – is through the use of an effective Contract Management System (CMS).  A CMS is simply an organized approach to centralizing and integrating all the many agreements that an organization enters into or uses during the course of operating its business in order to better manage the negotiation, execution, compliance, evaluation, and refinement or amendment of such agreements or contracts.
• Those Aren't Our Employees, Are They? Avoid Unexpected Liability for Contingent Workers (August 2009 Legal Newsletter) - Many experts estimate that nearly 30 percent of the entire U.S. workforce is contingent. What do we mean by contingent? Contingent work, defined broadly, covers flexible employment practices such as temporary work, employee leasing, self-employment, independent contracting and homebased work as well as part-time work. The “contingent force” in America is growing and presents substantial legal issues for employers. Here is a brief summary of the issues confronting employers.
• Spring 2009 Legal Update (June 2009) - including articles on fiduciary duties and bankruptcy
• Philadelphia Report (March 2009) - including the decertification of the Neurontin class action, leave required for victims of domestic violence, and timely appeal of an arbitration award