One mistake I see people making too frequently is selecting the wrong lawyer for their business. I have lost count of the number of people who've come to me, very unhappy with their previous lawyer. Often in my situation, because I do intellectual property and...
Continue ReadingWhat do you do if you get into a dispute with a client? This is a tricky one, often it relates to nonpayment, I have two pieces of advice in relation to that. There's two methods of dealing with it, one is always taking money...
Continue ReadingHey, it is Cathryn Warburton again, your legal lioness and we are talking about bulletproofing your business. Business bullies, is one of the topics that really gets me going. Bullies are something that I do not tolerate at all and in fact that's one of...
Continue ReadingWhat I'm talking about is the perspective of terms and conditions. So, you're offering goods or services, and you want to let people know what the deal is. This is different from collaboration, because when you collaborate with somebody, which I've dealt with in a...
Continue ReadingOne thing that I have seen in my 20 plus years of being a lawyer that causes one of the biggest problems in small business is simply just not having things down in writing. The potential disaster that this causes is not usually so much...
Continue ReadingHey there, today we are talking about avoiding the lemming mistake in your business. You know those little lemmings, you've seen the cartoons of them going off the cliff and then the next one goes and then another, and another, and another. Well a lot...
Continue ReadingMost people know what a confidentiality agreement is, it's just an agreement to keep information confidential, as it says in the name. It’s also sometimes called a non-disclosure agreement, N-D-A. That can be really handy if you want to run a business idea past somebody....
Continue ReadingWhat are business structures and why do you need to know about them? So when people start trading, you've got the option of just simply picking out your shingle, starting to run your business, and basically you are your business. Now there are some downsides...
Continue ReadingImagine running a workshop which results in a big drama, maybe one of your attendees steal your course and they go and train other people on what you've just been teaching them so you end up losing clients, and your reputation is in the toilet....
Continue ReadingSocial media releases, what are they? And do you need one? Well, it's more important if you're running a face to face workshop to be honest, then if you're doing stuff online. Mostly webinars don't really need a social media release, but there's no harm in...
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