Jun 18, 2015
How to Avoid a Lawsuit
GETTING SUED What’s your biggest fear as a business owner? Bankruptcy? Bad reviews? Lack of control? If you answered ‘lawsuits‘, you are not alone. In fact there’s even a word...
Author: Larry Donahue
Jun 16, 2015
Why You Should Be Comparing Your Employees to Furniture
HIRING There are countless books, movies and tips on how to hire the ‘right’ employee. Let’s cut to the chase– there is no such thing as the ‘perfect fit’. However...
Jun 9, 2015
How to Dissolve a LLC Properly
Last week, I wrote a blog article entitled How to Properly Dissolve a For-Profit Corporation (in New Mexico), which detailed how to dissolve an S-Corp or C-Corp, which is different...
Jun 4, 2015
Business Acquisition Checklist
BUYING A BUSINESS Thinking of buying a business or part of a business? If so, then congratulations! Simply by reading this article, you are exhibiting the prudence and wisdom that...
May 26, 2015
UCC Search & Lien Search in Business Acquisition
Previously, we have discussed the high-level issues of either acquiring or selling a business, in a blog article entitled, The Art of Buying and Selling a Business. In this article,...
May 21, 2015
What is “Piercing the Corporate Veil” ?
LIABILITY Liability can be quite confusing to a small business. Do you know what you are personally liable for? What are the exceptions to liability? What is “piercing the corporate...
Apr 29, 2015
Maintaining Your Privacy with an Anonymous LLC
In today’s information age driven by the advent of the Internet, web-based applications and mobile devices, privacy has become a precious commodity. In the US, almost all states publish “public...
Apr 13, 2015
S.M.A.R.T. Goals are Smart to Have
Many of our blog articles are devoted to contracts and attempt to help educate our small business clients and prospective clients on the issues of contract law, as it pertains...
Mar 23, 2015
Trust in Business: As Important as Cash (almost)
If you think about it, it’s pretty obvious: Trust is everything. Without it, your marriage cannot stand. Business partnerships wither and die. Customers flee. Stephen M.R. Covey, wrote a fantastic...
Mar 18, 2015
The Art of Contracts – Predicting the Future
As you might imagine, this firm writes and reviews a LOT of contracts. Oftentimes, I think this firm could make more money by charging a client for every time they...
Mar 4, 2015
Doing Business with the Elderly
Nothing stirs the passions of a compassionate adult, quite like the thought of abuse to individuals who are unable to protect themselves, such as children, persons with intellectual disabilities, and...
Feb 27, 2015
Rogue Business Partners
In an ideal world, we get along with our friends and family 100% of the time. There is no such thing as divorce. Our children grow up exactly the way...