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Rolling Forward with Your Food Truck Idea
It usually goes something like this: while visiting a friend in Portland, you stopped by one of the city’s 50+ food cart pods the day it wasn’t raining and about...
Deepfakes and their legal implications
It’s hard to deny our affinity for creativity when it comes to enhancing selfies, vacation photos, or everyday moments with friends. Photo alteration, or manipulation, has been around for more...
July 2019: Ask A Lawyer: Special Edition – Ask an HR Professional
In our twelfth installment of “Ask a Lawyer” we have had a lot of Human Resources questions recently, and we decided to create a Special Edition of Ask A Lawyer...
How to Form a Food Truck LLC
Food? Check. Truck? Check. Now you’re ready to make your business official. One of the steps in this journey is starting a food truck LLC for your mobile eatery, the...
Trademark or Cultural Appropriation?
Kim Kardashian is in the news again, perhaps she never really left the news, but this time for a Trademark issue. She is trying to Trademark the name KIMONO for...
July 2019: Ask A Lawyer with Larry Donahue
In our eleventh installment of “Ask a Lawyer” we featured questions from Larry Donahue. [Albuquerque Journal: Ask A Lawyer with Larry Donahue] Read it here Question 1 QUESTION: Is there...
Understanding Contracts: The Sports Contract
When most of us hear about our favorite pro athlete signing with a new team, we see dollar signs. Mike Trout’s $426 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels makes...
Is your business ready for an I-9 Audit from ICE?
What is an I-9 Audit? US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for conducting I-9 Audits. What this means is ICE will dispatch officers to businesses to audit your...
What to do about an EEOC charge
Small Business Owners are used to dealing with many stressful situations. It comes with the territory. However, nothing can make a business owner more frantic than receiving notice that their...
Toxic Employees: Hands Down, the fastest way to kill a happy work environment.
The toxic employee. The truth of the matter is all business owners are one bad hire away from their workplace going from productive and friendly to miserable. Toxic Employees are...
June 2019: Ask A Lawyer with Ian Alden
In our ninth installment of “Ask a Lawyer” we featured questions from Ian Alden. [Albuquerque Journal: Ask A Lawyer with Ian Alden] Read it here Question 1 QUESTION: I’ve been...
YouTube’s Copyright Rules
As a content creator, it’s important to know the rules when it come to making, editing, and publishing videos on YouTube. One aspect of creating videos for YouTube is having...