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Free seminar for business leaders! Moving beyond brick-and-mortar: clearing the legal hurdles for doing business on the Internet. Overview Many businesses are allured with the hope of revenues earned from doing business on the Internet, but concerned about the time, effort and complexity involved in getting their legal house in order. Significant misconceptions about litigation, contracts, abuse and online fraud often keep these businesses from taking even basic steps to protect their businesses. In this session Larry Donahue, a

In my previous blog post, I talked about how Evergreen Clauses should be avoided in your contracts. In this article, I talk about another thing to avoid in your contracts: inconsistency. Interesting, though, is that consistency is a critical business attribute that is required in more than just contracts. I had an interesting experience with the New Mexico Business Weekly earlier this week. I wanted to attend their "Breakfast with the Business Weekly" networking event.

Law 4 Small Business opens up in New Mexico, a law firm with advice and help tailored and priced specifically for small businesses POSTED: 3/2/2011 ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, February 25, 2011 — In these rough economic times, businesses of all sizes and types need help and advice from attorneys, to help protect them from potentially costly mistakes. Until recently, only the larger or more successful businesses could afford to indulge in regular legal advice. Law 4 Small Business

If you're interested in Evergreen Clauses, you should consider L4SB's flat-rate contract review. Only $25/page (minimum 4 pages).In my previous blog post, Not incorporating is risky business, I suggested everyone in business for themselves should incorporate their business. This article will be helpful for anyone, whether they are incorporated or not. It is the first, of many, articles in which I will talk about contract best-practices.

The L4SB engagement letterThe Law 4 Small Business (L4SB) engagement agreement can be downloaded here: What is the Engagement Letter? The Engagement Letter above is a general agreement that outlines my fees and the particulars of the engagement. You need to fill it out completely, sign it, and send it back to L4SB. What To Do With This Document If you have any questions, please contact L4SB. Once it is

If you're operating an unincorporated business, you're spending more in taxes and you're exposing yourself to liability.The U.S. Census Bureau says that in the U.S. in 2007, there were 23M "nonfarm proprietorships," 3M partnerships, and 5.8M corporations, respectively, as measured by the number of tax returns filed. This means a whopping 4 out of 5 businesses in the US (over 81%) are sole proprietorships or partnerships, lacking a formal corporate structure. This

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An aggressive rate, an aggressive offering Attorneys are loath to quote fixed-fee or flat-fee pricing for good reason: Everyone's needs are different, and it's very difficult to cast a broad and generalized brush for everyone, so as to be able to publish a "rate" for a specific offering. Especially involving legal matters. The phrase "one size fits all," doesn't apply to contracts.Let me give you some examples. Take a vendor agreement, and give the exact same contract it

Trademarks are very important to businesses for two primary reasons: First and foremost, they help identify and distinguish your goods or services to your customers. Second, they make it more difficult for competitors to pass their goods or services off as yours. Unfortunately, trademarks and the supporting law are often misunderstood by business leaders, and as a consequence, serve as an outstanding example of why business leaders should invest in a little law now to save

Now that I'm focusing on building a new type of law firm, my friends and family are coming to me with their stories of legal nightmares, and how a law firm like Law 4 Small Business (L4SB) could have helped avoid a catastrophe. One story struck a cord with me, and it's one that I must repeat. It does, after all, do a great job of describing why it's important for businesses - no matter their