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The L4SB Business Tips Series, as well as general business tips for L4SB clients and small business in general.

What is TEAS Plus When Filing a Trademark Application?

July 7, 2020 / by Kameron Kramer / Business Law, Business Tips, Intellectual Property, Small Business, Strategic Planning, Tech Law, Trademarks / 0 comments

In the past, we have talked about many different trademark topics. When looking at trademarks themselves, we have discussed the difference between ® and TM. After a trademark has been filed, we have written various blogs about office actions and how to respond to them, including, likelihood of confusions rejections in trademark applications, non-distinct office […]

Law 4 All Summer Sales Event Is Happening Now!

July 2, 2020 / by Kristy Donahue / Business Tips, Contracts, Copyright, Corporations, EEOC Violation Defense, Employee Management, Employment Law, Estate Planning, Expungement of a Criminal Record, Human Resources, I-9 Audits, Intellectual Property, LLC, Marketing, Move Your LLC, Other Corporate Entities, Partnership, Patents, Resolving Disputes, Small Business, Strategic Planning, Taxes, Tech Law, Toxic Employee Consultation, Trade Secret, Trademarks / 0 comments

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Big Trademark Win For Dot-Com Brand Names

July 1, 2020 / by Kameron Kramer / Business Law, Business Tips, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Lawsuit, Marketing, Small Business, Strategic Planning, Tech Law, Trademarks / 0 comments

New Supreme Court Ruling Is A Victory For Dot-Com. The US Supreme Court just ruled that ‘Booking.com’ can be federally trademarked. The USPTO had rejected the mark ‘Booking.com’ as being a generic term for travel reservation with a simple dot-com attached at the end. A generic trademark is a mark that has become generic and […]

Why Can’t I Just Terminate My Lease?

June 30, 2020 / by Kameron Kramer / Business Law, Business Tips, Commercial Transactions, Contracts, COVID-19, Lawsuit, Resolving Disputes, Small Business, Strategic Planning / 0 comments

Wanting out of your commercial lease does not mean you can get out. Needing to terminate a commercial lease comes up often, and especially now with the current situation in the world. The bottom line is, commercial leases are governed primarily and solely by the lease itself, unlike residential tenants who enjoy certain protections under […]

What is an Advocate?

June 22, 2020 / by Larry Donahue / Business Law, Business Tips, Employee Management, Human Resources, Lawsuit, Resolving Disputes, Small Business, Strategic Planning / 0 comments

An Advocate is someone who works on behalf of another person. People in need of advocates are usually members of a population that may have significant challenges or roadblocks to resources, understanding or navigation within the legal system. Common Types of Populations That Benefit from Advocate Help: Children Abuse victims Poor Disabled Victims of crimes […]

Can You Fire An Employee For Being Racist?

June 19, 2020 / by Vanesa Lewinger / Business Tips, Employee Management, Employment Law, Human Resources, Resolving Disputes, Small Business, Strategic Planning, Toxic Employee Consultation / 0 comments

As an employer, it is well within your rights to terminate employees for essentially exercising very poor judgement, exposing and embarrassing themselves and, by proxy, the company they work for. Michael Henkel, Lisa Alexander, Robert Larkins and Amy Cooper. Do their names sound familiar? Chances are you may recognize these folks less by their names […]

Employees Lying on LinkedIn. Should Employers Care?

June 18, 2020 / by Larry Donahue / Business Tips, Human Resources, Marketing, Resolving Disputes, Small Business, Strategic Planning / 0 comments

More and more often I find myself sitting, mouth agape, absolutely mesmerized by what I find when looking at the LinkedIn profiles of people I am familiar with. Specifically, their self-stated and fully fictitious resumes, experience, and education. Social media, by its nature, is deceptive. (Have you looked at the pictures on Instagram and Facebook […]

Pay-if-paid vs. Pay-when-paid in Construction Contracts

June 16, 2020 / by Larry Donahue / Business Law, Business Tips, Contracts, Lawsuit, Small Business, Strategic Planning / 0 comments

What every subcontractor really needs to understand. One little word in a contract can make a big difference. Take for example the word “if” and the word “when”. If you are a subcontractor, your ability to get paid and when that payment will happen is dependent on whether the word “if” or the word “when” […]

How to Handle a Reference Call On The Employee You Fired.

June 9, 2020 / by Larry Donahue / Business Law, Business Tips, Employee Management, Employment Law, Human Resources, Lawsuit, Resolving Disputes, Small Business, Toxic Employee Consultation / 0 comments

Consider the notion that no good deed or lapse in professionalism usually goes unpunished. Is there anything more dreaded for a business owner or manager than to have to put up with and eventually terminate a bad employee? Maybe. How about the uncomfortable reference check or inquiry regarding your old problematic employee? The situation gets […]

L4SB Weighs in on NM Businesses Re-Opening During COVID-19

June 5, 2020 / by Kristy Donahue / Business Law, Business Tips, COVID-19 / 0 comments

Larry Donahue shares best practices for businesses. ESPN Radio- http://www.1017theteam.com/ invited Larry Donahue back on on their program, Team Up New Mexico, to discuss the current business environment in New Mexico. Now that businesses have been given the “OK” for a gradual re-opening, business owners should consider best practices and learn about their options. You […]

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