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• Entrepreneurs' Predicaments Illustrate Role of Lawyer

Quit procrastinating on updating, or perhaps even creating your will and other basic estate planning documents. After all, why are you spending those long hours at work?

• Basic Estate Planning in an Hour or Less

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• Records, advice ease business sale

• Planning business strategy before start-up is key

• Risking it all. What happens when you take your retirement money and start all over?

• Franchising Facts. Making a decision to open a franchise often means juggling a lot of options

Published in Courier Journal, Small Business Q & A:

• Classifying Employee as Independent Contractor Can be Costly

• Raising Money to Start a Small Business

• Software Helps Polish Writing of Business Plan

• Marketing on Internet Slowly Evolving

• S Corporation v. Limited Liability Company: New Rules and Decisions for 1997

• Privacy is a touchy issue; Employer Surveillance of Company E-mail vs. Employee Privacy Rights

• "S" Corporation needs end-of-year Checklist

• Minority Shareholders do have several rights

Published in The Advisor:

• Protect Your Edge with a Trade Secret Audit: Protecting Sensitive Business Information

• Spin Your Business on the Internet without Getting Caught in the Web

• Protect Your Business and Your Estate with a Limited Liability Company

• Entrepreneurs Get New Tools

• Mediation as an Alternative to Public Litigation of Sensitive Business Issues

• Avoid Litigation, Protect Your Business and Estate Plan with a Buy-Sell Agreement

Published in Louisville Computer News:

(June 1998)

• Y2K Up Close & Personal for Officers, Directors and Owners

(July 1998)

• Business Divorces Can be as Bad as the Domestic Variety

(August 1998)

• Surfing Around the Shoals on the Internet

(September 1998)

• The Case of the Hijacked Domain Name

(October 1998)

• E-MAIL Netiquette: Corporate Privacy and Spam

(November 1998)

• Spiders and Robots and Metatag Lawsuits, Oh My!

(December 1998)

• 'Tis the Season for E-Commerce

(January 1999)

• R U Y2K OK?

(February 1999)

• Practical Y2K?

(March 1999)

• Should Your Company Have an Employee Internet Policy?

(April 1999)

• Is Big Brother Watching You or are You Watching Big Brother; Privacy vs. Security on  the Internet

(May 1999)

• Postscript on Internet Privacy

(June 1999)

• Internet Regulation, Part 1; Should We? Do we Still Have a Choice?

(July 1999)

• A Quiet Little War; The Potential Impact of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act on Commerce

(August 1999)

• Leverage Your Small Business Bid by Adding a Team; Joint Ventures, Teaming Agreements and Strategic Alliances

(September 1999)

• Watch the Back Door to Your Computer

(October 1999)

• Are You Suffering an Identity Crisis? Identity Theft by the Numbers

(November 1999)

• The Responsible E-Commerce Company

(December 1999)

• Avoiding Online Shopping Rip-offs

(January 2000)

• Shopping Online - The Morning After - Warranty Blues

(February 2000)

• High-tech Noncompete Agreements; Anachronism Under Siege

(March 2000)

• Legislative Links; See What's Going on in Your Legislature

(April 2000)

• E-Commerce Legislation: Legislation already on the books, or about to be which will impact how you do business on the Internet

I'm writing a book online on how to start an e-commerce business. Read it as it's written. It also appears in paper form in Louisville Computer News.

• "DOTCOM THIS!" Press Release

• Entrepreneurial Self-Evaluation; See if you have what it takes to start your own business.

• Determine if Your Business Can Stick to the Web

• Decide if You Should Buy an Existing Business

• Putting Your Business Team Together

• Determine What Your Business Will Accomplish by Being on the Web

• Hiring Your First Employees

• Deciding if You Need an Employee Manual

• Christmas Catalogs (If E-commerce is working, why is the mailman bringing me so many catalogs?)

• Help Shoppers Get the Goods

• Business Start-up Checklist

• Devil in the Details; Licenses, Permits and Regulations

• High Points in the Process of Buying Part or All of an Existing Business

• Using Confidentiality Agreements to Protect your Business

• Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

• Have You Read What’s In That Contract?

• Putting the Magic in Your Contracts

• Negotiating a Real Estate Lease

• Contracting for Web Development Services

• Planning For Disaster - Part I

• Planning For Disaster - Part II

• Recovering from Disaster; a Potpourri of Advice from the Experts

• Book Chapter Self Defense Business Plan

• Outlining Your Business Plan

• Should You Incorporate Your Business in Delaware or Nevada?

Miscellaneous Material and Articles

• Common Sense Business Protection

• Start-Up Steps (Basic steps in starting any type of business)

• WAYS TO GET IT DONE "Partners," Employees, Consultants, Independent Contractors

• Selecting a Name for Your Business (Domain Names, Trademarks, Service Marks, Etc.)

• BUYER'S DUE DILIGENCE INVESTIGATION OF SELLER'S BUSINESS - Outline of many of the issues a seller should investigate before agreeing to purchase a business.

• Exiting from Your Business

• Excerpt of a letter to clients considering strategy and control issues, when contemplating the alternatives of merger with another company, or taking in a major investor.

• Gallery Agreement (Free sample form)

The following free documents are a "lite" version of handouts to our clients who are forming a new corporation or limited liability company.

• Handbook for Clients on Corporate Procedures

• Handbook for Clients on Limited Liability Company Procedures