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HERE DOESN’T COME THE BRIDE
HERE DOESN'T COME THE BRIDE I have known a bride or two, and I am counsel to many a business owners in the industry. It is these very business owners that find themselves at the center of the uncertainty universe during this pandemic. But first, I would be remiss if I...
The Law According to Shah: The Gambler
The Gambler 1. Is there really a difference between purchasing contracts written by lawyers versus having a lawyer draft one for you? 2. And don't lawyers file the same papers for my LLC that Legal Zoom does? 3. How am I more protected by your legal words than I am by...
Can I Have Unpaid Interns in Massachusetts? It Depends (and other lawyerly answers)
Can You Have Unpaid Interns in Massachusetts? Probably Not and It Also Depends and Other Lawyerly Answers. What better way to get things rolling in your business than with those fresh-faced eager-to-learn interns? Do not run afoul of misclassifying your intern,...
How Can I Have A Business Partner Without, You Know, Partnering With Them?
The law is old and cranky at times and really needs to catch up with us modern business women. By legal definition, a partnership is two or more individuals who create and run a business and share expenses and profits equally. These days, there are many ways to...
Running Your Business Without Pants
THE ONLINE BUSINESS PACKAGE: RUNNING YOUR MONEY-MACHINE WITHOUT PANTS And there you have it, you can run your business and be fabulous with no pants! And you can be successful doing it. The birth of the entire online business is here. And coming from someone who...
Does Your Business Need An Annual Checkup?
When doctors talk to me about annual checkups, I play dumb and am like, “Oh yea that, I will do that soon.” Then 5 years go by, and all of a sudden, I have high cholesterol, a thyroid problem, and all sorts of other things you are not at all interested in hearing...
Almost Everything Thing You Say Before The Contract Doesn’t Count….
(….Not even if you look as cute as Toothless Johnny here while saying it) (1) When you contract with anyone (client, contractor, employee, your dog) everything you say, orally or written, prior to or contemporaneous to contract will be excluded if it was not...
Everything Contracts: Why Am I Re-Writing My Client Agreement 1000 Times?
Here is a little business legal tip for today (I have mentioned this before, so it is not new, but what the heck (repetition is good)): If you find yourself editing your client services agreement (CSA) for every client to customize it to them, you can stop today. You...
Everything Contracts: The Client Agreement
How Contract-ey should my Contract be with my Clients? People assume that because I am an attorney, l will put a lot of difficult-to- understand legalese riddled with Latin terms that sound scary in their contracts. This is not a wrong assumption to make about an...
Here Comes The Bridal Contract? Corona Considerations
I am feeling deeply for the event planners out there and, in particular, the Wedding Planners! In the last 6 days, I have had about 15 inquiries from Wedding Planners, which prompted me to write this. Do I Need To Refund Everything? No, especially if (1) you have...