Mark Toth, Chief Legal Officer of Manpower, has a terrific employment law blog post any small business owner should read. Toth’s blog is creative and fun and his advice is right on the mark. Follow his greatest hits and you are much more likely to stay out of trouble with your employees.
I particularly agree
Where should you incorporate your Iowa small business? This question is asked a lot by 
many prospective small business owners. The question used to be surprising but after seeing and hearing numerous advertisements for Delaware and Nevada corporations on the Internet and on satellite radio it is definitely a legitimate question.
Delaware has reputation and
flickr, ‘Creative Commons’, Blogs
Continue Reading Bloggers Beware: Even Creative Commons Photos Could Land You in Court
If you operate an online business or you are thinking of starting one I recommend you pick up a copy of Cyberlaw: A Legal Arsenal For your Online Business. Written by Iowa intellectual property attorney Brett Trout the book is new and updated with lots more content than his previous version. This book still has
Michael Moore of the Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog has an excellent post on the possibility of reverse discrimination when employers make decisions under the auspices of voluntary affirmative action plans, diversity programs, or even "risk management". Michael says:
I am surprised by how many companies will select non-minority employees for layoff in a reduction in
There are two great opportunities for Central Iowa entrepreneurs tomorrow:
I encourage you to check out Blawg Review #126 written by Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends. Anita is a lawyer by training but an entrepreneur at heart. Her award winning Web site was the "Best of the Web" according to Forbes Magazine for small business blogs.
The lineup of small business experts on Anita’s
I have written about how to hire a business lawyer at times in the past. My first rule is that the lawyer should be experienced and competent in business law rather than choosing a personal injury, family law, criminal law or other lawyer. My analogy used to be that you would not want a plastic
For anyone interesting in becoming a better blogger you need to read Kevin O’Keefe’s Blawg Review #125. It’s his business but no one has done more than Kevin and Lexblog to promote blogging among lawyers. Kevin’s mantra for lawyer blogs:
‘Do good – for society, yourself, and the image of our legal profession.’
Kevin has cited
Charlie Longbrief, attorney at law, had just turned off his computer late on a Friday afternoon when the phone rang. It was Pete Geek who owned a local computer consulting service.
"Charlie, I’ve got a problem," Pete said.
"Tell me about it," Charlie said.
"Well, I had to fire one of my sales people earlier
