When you start a business with other people, each of you own a percentage of it – a share. In a two-person partnership, each of you might have a 50-50 share. Adding more people or entities of ownership, obviously, means a reduced shared for everyone. But what if one...
If you are a small-to-medium-sized business owner, you may view building a business plan as a deeply complex endeavor that will require exorbitant amounts of time. And because of this, you might decide not to bother. You might tell yourself that you already have the...
You may feel that you’re acing your estate planning, because you have created a plan for both your personal and business assets: real estate, stocks, different bank accounts, trustees, business co-owners… And that’s great. But I want to draw your attention to an...
Intellectual property generally relates to three bodies of law: copyright, trademark and patent. Each has it’s own universe of significance, rights, remedies, and the like. In this page, we’re going to be focusing on copyright, a legal tool every artist, writer, or...
Recently we took a bit of a deep dive into litigation, covering the process in general and then taking an expanded look on why you probably want to avoid it in most instances. One of the ways you do that? By engaging in alternative dispute resolution. What exactly is...
Often, people come to us gung-ho about suing someone to make them pay for some wrong they have had to endure at the hands of the other party. Perhaps a business partnership went sour. Or they feel slighted in a will. This desire to jump straight to litigation is...