Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. -Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was asked by a young attorney how to build his law practice. His advice (part of it...
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Have you heard of HIPAA? Health Information Portability Act of 19something says that a person's private information (i.e. name, address, social, diagnosis, etc.) should be held in the strictest of...
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Imagine you are competing to win a large RFP at a significant prospect and you save your copies of the proposal drafts on a memory stick, you are traveling to deliver the proposal in the morning so...
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Energy prices and freedom move in opposite directions. Thomas Friedman, author of the bestselling book 'The World is Flat" continuously outputs some of the smartest and spot-on observations...
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Here is an interesting quote from a recent article about the Federal Reserve interest rate changes. "This points to an important trend. The Fed's monetary policy as implemented through its...
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Filed in archive Risk Management
by betsy on February 10, 2006
Steve Pavlina has an intelligent post on intelligent risk-taking. He writes a "personal development" weblog, but as every business person knows, it's all about taking risks. From what...
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Does your company have a blog? How about a blogging policy? My guess is that many of us would say yes to the first question, and no to the second. But just as there are myriad benefits to business......
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Filed in archive Risk Management
by betsy on February 07, 2006
Once cars have been submerged in water, as hundreds of thousands were during the Gulf Coast hurricanes, they can have so many hidden problems that they are considered unsafe to drive....
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The smart folks over at the Euclid Managers' blog are writing a series of posts about identity theft, especially from the perspective of a business owner who might find her company accused of not...
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J. Douglas Miller in the "Small Business IP Protection and Management" blog tells us about a new program for small business owners from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO says...
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One of the essential criteria for a binding contract is agreement, or in legalspeak, "a mutual manifestation of assent to the same terms." (Barron's Law Dictionary 2nd ed.) Yet I come...
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Let's start with a few questions: 1.How much do you need to know about copyright? 2.Should you copyright your work product? 3.What if you unintentionally infringe on someone else's copyright?...
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Are you thinking of doing business in the global marketplace? More and more small businesses are finding that in order to grow, they need to reach out to markets, vendors and partners around the...
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There are a whole lot of lawyers out there (at least in the US where I live) and lots of people get information and advice about running their business via the internet. I know that I've received...
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