There are over 47,000 active U.S. law firms. Many people assume that law firms will always be in demand and never lack clients. However, this statistic does not include independent attorneys and private legal practices. In the scope of the entire legal industry, law firms have to constantly identify means of staying competitive to ensure […]
Businesses required legal assistance throughout the life of the company. From organizing a legal entity to defending a contract, lawyers can keep businesses running smoothly. Business owners need to pay attention to where legal advice is needed most. If you are only consulting a lawyer when there is a legal issue, you could be missing […]
Businesses of all sizes and sectors can have many different types of international assets. This can be both an opportunity and a risk, and smart financial and asset management can help you to make the most of the former while mitigating the latter. There are several classes of international assets that you might carry. If […]
Not many are aware of this, but in the United States, 99.9% of all businesses fall under the Small Business category. That translates to about 29.6 million organizations in total! Furthermore, these businesses have in employ 57.9 million people. That makes up about 47.8% of the entire employed population. All these go to show how […]
“Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.” – Johannes Rau What is copyright? Well, in short, it’s a legal right created by the law of a country, which allows an author or creator of an original work exclusive rights to freely use and distribute it. Fortunately, or unfortunately (depending on your perception), […]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates that businesses need to deal with client’s personal data in a constitutional manner. All of the client’s personal data needs to be completely secure at all times. Additionally the company must transparently inform the client exactly what information about the client is being secured. The terms and conditions […]
The Sarbanes Oxley Whistleblower protections were put in place following the spectacular crash of Enron, which vaporized retirement savings and added millions to unemployment lines. When Congress enacted the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), they incorporated a robust clause meant to include a ‘corporate code of silence’. Congress gave whistleblowers an early warning system to stop […]
When websites like eBay first launched, the internet became rife with stories about people buying things and getting something else instead. Broken goods, mislabeled items, and loads of other scam-like offerings have been produced over the years, and times have certainly changed. Nowadays, buyers have much greater protection than they used to, and operations like […]
The whole business industry is buzzing with news of the new GDPR rules that are set to come into place by the 25th of May 2018. These new rules are set to have a big impact on businesses across all industries – never before has there been a time when businesses have been more motivated […]
Many entrepreneurs today find Singapore to be the ideal place to do business. This is mainly because Singapore has a ready market for most products, and because one can avoid double taxation in Singapore. This has been made possible thanks to the Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreements signed by the state several years back. This […]
Car accidents can be rather stressful events which raise a gruelling session of questions and answers. If you have a commercial vehicle of your business or you have a vehicle on lease and one fine day it meets with a road accident, what are you supposed to do? As per the Insurance Information Institute, there […]
If you are the owner of a business or just curious about data security and the protection of your personal data, you might have stumbled across the term GDPR. Business owners definitely need to be aware of what this is and why it’s important. But even if you don’t own a business, the GDPR could […]
Legal services can be a hard sell. This is due to several challenges that get in the way of many a law firm’s desire to achieve better growth numbers. For sure, an industry that has been around for centuries is no stranger to obstacles. It merely adapts to the trends in technology and uses these […]
Your company’s name, logo, tagline, and other marks are the heart and soul of your business identity. They set your brand apart from the competition, becoming more recognizable as your reputation and business grows. Discovering someone is using your marks or elements that appear confusingly similar to them can be surprising and upsetting. Rather than […]
We’re almost at the one-year countdown to the day when the UK leaves the EU. With March 29th 2017 the day when Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK now has a schedule to exit from the economic and political partnership come March 29th 2019. There’s still so much […]
Each year, there are nearly 3 million of job accidents. If you are a business owner, you know all too well how much work goes into keeping employees safe. While you may have a variety of safeguards in place to prevent these incidents, in some cases they are unavoidable. When these accidents occur, it is […]
