Business Law Attorney
Our lawyers have provided businesses with a comprehensive range of legal services, commercial transactions and business litigation. We represent established businesses and start-ups, robust enterprises and low key mom & pop businesses of all kinds; hi-tech, low-tech and no-tech; contractors, doctors and other lawyers.
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Our Business Law Legal Services includes legal advice and representation for issues related to:
● Starting a new Business ● Buying or Selling a Business ● Corporation, LLC and Partnership ● Employee and Independent Contractor ● Commercial Leases ● Intellectual Property ● Internet Businesses ● Terms and Conditions ● Contracts and Agreements ● Litigation Lawsuits Mediation & Arbitration ● Not For Profit ● Small Business Mediation ● Family & Émigré Owned Business
Business Startup Tips
If you are going into business with one or more other people you will want an lawyer to assist you in identifying the issues which can lead to disagreement and to address those issues early on. Agreements with partners are to be sure that there is a complete understanding, especially if something goes wrong in the relationship. Disagreements with partners is a common cause for small business failure.
You will need to consider whether or not it’s valuable or necessary to be entity, especially those having the advantage of limited liability like a corporation or an LLC. You might also consider a partnership, or if it is only you, a sole proprietorship.
Part of the process of starting or acquiring a business may involve a commercial lease. Because location is often at the heart of the value of a business, securing the location is essential.
While every business requires a business license, that is usually routine. Other business require extensive licensing to operate at all. And all of those licenses may be impacted by choosing to operate as an entity. Also, you need a permit to collect sales taxes and to avoid paying sale tax on goods to be resold. You may need a permit to operate your business using a name other than your own.
Because governmental entities which enforce these rules can be somewhat slow to react, small businesses often are lulled into a false sense of compliance. Sadly, when violations are discovered, enforcement can and often is vicious and typically goes back four years. Ignorance of the law or examples of your competitors doing the same thing generally provides no defense. Knowing the rules and complying with them is the only sure way for a new business owner to avoid potential disaster.
A core business asset of yours may fall into the zone of intellectual property. You may have a name that you want to keep others from using, which will generally require the USPTO to issue a trademark. Typically, registering a name as part of form a corporation or LLC or filing a Fictitious Business Name Statement provides inadequate protection from others using the same name. You may have developed a technology that can be issued a patent to prevent others from using that technology.
