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When you're starting a small business, the first question is the hardest: What kind of business do you want to start? Let #Mattthelawyer walk you through the essential questions you must ask yourself (and your business partners) when you want to launch a business. If...
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I’ve often said that a contract is nothing more than a written description of a business relationship. Often times this relationship can get complex. Maybe you have a contract that is pretty long, such as the purchase or sale of a business. This is usually...
Many years ago, when I was new to the legal profession, I was assigned to review a large volume of contracts as part of due diligence for a business purchase. I was part of a team of six attorneys reviewing the documents, which were some fairly standardized contracts in...
As the Frederick nonprofit community continues to grow, so does the advice that we offer to these organizations. While our specialty is on the legal side of nonprofit management, we want to offer our clients more. This month we invite Mary Ellen Mitchell, local nonprofit...
In a previous post, we started discussing how businesses can use information design concepts in contracts. I’d like to share some more reasoning as to why our clients and small and medium sized businesses should start considering the use of information design principles in order to foster transparency with your...
Often when small or medium sized businesses who are contract dependent are dealing with their customers, one of the most difficult things to understand is how the layout of a contract improves the overall quality of the contract. Recently, there has been a trend in the legal world that lawyers...
How many times have you looked at a lengthy contract and thought to yourself – I really don’t have the time for this; I don’t understand this. Often times, non-lawyer folk want to understand the basic facts and leave technicalities of contracts to their lawyers or business advisors. Sometimes,...