It’s the worst nightmare of many entrepreneurs… a cease and desist letter. When you get one of these, it usually means that you have (knowingly or not) done something you shouldn’t have done, and someone else wants you to stop it. Thinking about writing a cease and desist letter? I previously wrote about 5 cease
Today’s video was inspired by a question posed in the Screw the 9 to 5 community. The question was: Rather than write out a long and detailed post answering this question, I thought I would take a couple minutes and record a video. Here goes nothin’…
For those of you that were unaware, I’m in the process of writing a book that outlines all the do’s and don’ts that you need to be aware of when staring (or building) an online business. A huge issue I see with many clients is multiple trademark application mistakes that generate problems with the USPTO.
Recently I’ve been researching possible blog topics and noticed that there is very little legal information out there for people that work from home. And because my law practice works with online entrepreneurs, it dawned on me that many of you probably do actually work from home in your online business. Now, this post was inspired
Writing a cease and desist letter is one of the most common things I get asked to do as lawyer. For most people, they think that by sending out a cease and desist letter to every single person or business that threatens your business will automatically solve all your problems. Wrong… Used appropriately, a cease and
Wouldn’t it be a fabulous world if we didn’t need lawyers? One of the great things about lawyers is that we can (usually, but not always) fix the mistakes our clients make. And the way I see it, if I can help to educate my clients and the public at large about what those common mistakes
As a lawyer, I see my clients make a lot of mistakes on pretty much a daily basis. And frankly, I hate that. I want my clients to succeed with their online business. So as their lawyer, I consider it my obligation to educate my clients and share with them what they should be doing
If you are running an online business, there are few things more certain than this – you definitely need to have a privacy policy on your website. Why? Because people need to know how you are handling their information. They need to know what information you collect about them, how you are storing it, and what
If you are in the process of starting or building an online business, chances are you may be wondering whether you will need to hire a small business lawyer at some point. The entire goal of this article is to help you make that decision. Some of the items I’m going to cover include: Situations
