I have added podcasts to Rush on Business through BlogTalkRadio. The first podcast is an interview with Iowa patent and information technology lawyer Brett Trout concerning the important federal rule changes regarding electronic discovery and how it impacts your business. Brett is the author of Internet Laws Affecting Your Company. As Brett says, bury
Wiggin and Dana’s Franchise Law Blog has a discussion about the amended FTC rules for franchises. The new rules require franchisors to provide all potential franchisees with a disclosure document containing 23 specific items of information about the offered franchise, its officers, and other franchisees.
Required disclosure topics include, for example: the franchise’s litigation history
New York small business lawyer Imke Ratschko wrote an excellent blog post on Web incorporation services. She found a blog post by a California business lawyer who described a certain Web incorporation service as almost a scam.
Imke also shares her reasons why people are better off choosing business lawyers to perform incorporation and LLC
A couple of months ago I received Sirius satellite radio as a gift. I love it except for one constant ad that drives me absolutely bonkers. About every fifteen minutes I hear an ad from LegalZoom, a legal document company. LegalZoom touts that its fees are 85% less than those of lawyers.
First, with
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear an important employment discrimination case in which a Coca-Cola bottling company fired a black employee. The case involves allegations that a supervisor was motivated by racial bias and influenced a human resources manager to fire the worker. The human resources person was located elsewhere and did not
On December 31, 2006, I wrote a post on how Blog Monitoring is a Top Trend for 2007. Today’s Des Moines Business Record cover story is Exhibit A. The story recounts how smart companies are listening to bloggers and dealing quite effectively with negative publicity. It seems Central Iowa blogger Tom Vander Well
I ran across an excellent article by employment law litigator Jason Storipan of Stark & Stark on issues involving electronic discovery and employment law. Storipan cautions that employers must be aware and plan for the new electronic discovery rules:
". . . [e]mployment law is an area of the law that the increases in
Jeff Mathias is the author of a new law blog called Bankruptcy Cafe. He already has some nice posts including 8 Tips to Rebuild Your Credit After Bankruptcy and 10 Common Bankruptcy Mistakes. His writing style is very straight-forward and informative.
Jeff is savvy when it comes to providing information to the public
Microsoft has renewed its attacks against Roxanne Conlin in the Iowa consumer class action case. This time Microsoft wants the right to question the named plaintiffs about their connections to Conlin before the lawsuit. Apparently Microsoft believes Conlin recruited these plaintiffs to file the lawsuit. According to the Des Moines Register, Conlin acknowledges she was
I tell clients they need to establish relationships with at least four professionals when starting a business including:
As tax season kicks into full force many business owners may be considering hiring an accountant to complete their business taxes. I always get worried when a business person tells me he
