by Jarom Bergeson | Jan 19, 2016 | Asset Protection, Business planning, Law, Small Business
January is a time when most of us take the opportunity to reflect on the status of our lives. Many of us are setting goals and searching for ways to improve ourselves and our situations going forward into the New Year. For many business owners, this process focuses on...
by Jarom Bergeson | Dec 29, 2015 | Business planning, Corporations, Estate Planning, Law, Small Business, Tax Planning
As one might expect, the dawning of a new year presents many great opportunities for legal planning. In fact, many of us procrastinate quality legal planning during the year because of our hectic lives…not because we don’t value its importance. However, life comes at...
by Lee Chen | Dec 15, 2015 | Business planning, Law, Small Business
Most businesses at some point will have information that helps it to be successful which it wants to keep secret. It may not be the formula for Coca-Cola or the “secret sauce” for McDonalds, but most business will have some information that it would not want in the...
by Jarom Bergeson | Nov 10, 2015 | Asset Protection, Business planning, Law, Small Business
Perhaps no other innovation is as indicative of America’s particular devotion to (and knack for) creative capitalism as the limited liability company (“LLC”). Born in America’s smallest state (Wyoming) in 1977, the LLC combines the pass-through taxation of a...
by Kevin Kennedy | Nov 3, 2015 | Business planning, Small Business
Last week, the Securities Exchange Commission finally adopted regulations to permit equity-based crowdfunding at the federal level. These regulations will be effective in 6 months. This is a monumental change in federal policy that many entrepreneurs and business...
by Lee Chen | Oct 26, 2015 | Litigation, Small Business
One of the most exciting aspects of being an entrepreneur is taking an idea and transforming it into a successful, thriving enterprise. Unfortunately, sometimes in their haste and excitement to develop and monetize the idea, entrepreneurs may overlook necessary steps...