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Lawsuits are expensive, time-consuming, and can considerably hinder a small business. Detailed, well-drafted, and skillfully negotiated contracts are worth the Read More

When filling out the tax return for your small busines, remember to avoid the things that are red flags to auditors. The top concerns when filling out small business taxes are not what you might think. Consider taking steps to avoid costly engagement with the IRS. Instead, be fair when filling out your return. Read More

Business owners often don't think about legal issues until they get hit with a lawsuit or decide to sue someone. Unfortunately, once they arise, costly court actions can destroy companies. Smart Answers asked several attorneys who work with small companies what they considered the top legal pitfalls for 2010 and how they can avoided. Read More

Every office has one (or two, or more!). You know the types. Those toxic coworkers who only look out for Number One, no matter what the cost to their coworkers or the company that employs them. Read More

Attorney Mark Rosenberg speaks with Reel SEO about small business video marketing and some legal tips to keep you out of trouble when using people or trademarks in your video marketing. In addition to the video below, the link leads to a full post on the issues. Read More

Guest blogger Jonathan I. Ezor shares the last in a series of four articles on BusinessWeek's The New Entrepreneur on the topic of business contracts on the topic of indemnification. According to the post, Ezor is "the director of the Touro Law Center Institute for Business, Law and Technology, and an assistant professor of law and technology. He also serves as special counsel to The Lustigman Fi Read More

A panel of attorney's discuss a wide range of small business legal issues from power of attorney to contracts at a meeting of the board of the National Association of Women Business Owners. This video from Small Business Television claims to include 25 small business legal tips within 25 minutes and honestly I didn't count that carefully. Also there is some exchange with the audience including qu Read More

This is part 1 of a series by Jonathan I. Ezor, a guest blogger at The New Entrepreneur at Business Week designed to unravel the secret language of attorneys for perspective entrepreneurs and business owners. The premise, of course, is that whether or not a small business owner has hired an attorney to deal with these things he/she ought to at least understand this stuff. While there is no shorta Read More

The National Federation of Business has created a great resource of legal tips for small business on their Website and this is just a sampling. These legal problems are things that every small business, to a greater or lesser degree, may someday face. But some also involve problems that can be fairly easily avoided. At list of these potential legal problems and precautions to avoid them can be a Read More