Your Annual Business Review

At the beginning of our relationship with your business, and once a year after that, we will do a top-to-bottom review/audit/assessment of your business. Our goal is to get a detailed picture of your business, from bylaw to capitalization to insurance to employment policies to licensing and sales contracts. In short, we will take a [...]

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Why Regular Check-Ins are Important

All of our plans come with regular check-ins, something missing from many business-attorney relationships. We do this because we believe regular check-ins with a lawyer are essential to the success of your business. Here is why. We don’t love the “coaching” fad, but we think at least one part of coaching is very effective for [...]

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What Should Be In Your NDA

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Five things: How much of what you disclose should be confidential? Exceptions to confidentiality (such as information that becomes publicly available through other means). Who can learn confidential information, and what can they use it for? Can the other party solicit your employees (a potential end-around the NDA)? How long does the obligation last? Also, [...]

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Startups–Lean or Not–Beware Online Legal Forms

Sam’s first post for Minnov8: It remains true, however, that you get what you pay for. For example, employment lawyer Karen Lundquist recently took a good, hard look at LawDepot’s $15 employment agreement. She found that it actually contained a provision that was illegal under federal law. In other words, there is no state in [...]

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A New Approach to Representing Startups

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Besides determination and a good idea, startups need a lawyer to succeed. Not just for the business formation, and not just in case you get sued. Your business lawyer should be a trusted partner, not just an expensive problem solver you call when things go badly wrong. We want to be that trusted partner, and [...]

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