If I’m a musician or my company represents artists, how necessary is it for me to hire an entertainment lawyer? That’s a question I get asked a lot by the people I meet in the music industry. The answer is probably best illustrated with an example. When I first started working in entertainment in 2000,
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Do I Need a Business Lawyer? If you haven’t drafted an LLC operating agreement, you’re going to want to talk to a partnership lawyer as soon as you can. What’s an LLC operating agreement, and more to the point, what exactly is an LLC, you say? I’m glad you asked. Allow me to begin with
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Value of Intellectual Property to Business It’s no secret that protecting intellectual property can be time consuming and expensive. When you’re just starting out in business—say if you’ve got a startup you’re trying to get off the ground—time and money are two things you probably can’t spare. According to the Lean Startup Methodology, focusing on getting your product to
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You are a happy author and may be either in the process, or almost finished, writing a book that contains memoirs of some of your friends’ life experiences. Before you go forward to either distribute copies or publish it, have you thought about getting legal releases from your friends or how to copyright intellectual property?
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MIAMI, FL- The law of habitability primarily protects renters of residential property. It is what makes maintenance of the property the responsibility of the landlord, who must comply with local building and health codes that, in aggregate, define habitability. The failure to keep a property in a habitable condition gives the renter the right to
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Contract Business Lawyers on New Residential Closing Transactions If a buyer of a residential listing applies for a mortgage loan on or after August 1, 2015, (now moved to October 1, 2015), new federal regulations will apply to the loan transaction. Generally, these new regulations will apply to all transactions involving a new residential mortgage
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Why is it that sellers, brokers and title companies avoid talking about DUE DILIGENCE? The vast majority of investors, real estate brokers and commercial real estate professionals barely scratch the surface conducting their due diligence when they buy commercial real estate investments. Investors are taking unnecessary risks and throwing money away or making bad investment
Warning to Business Owners- Are You Protected? 9 Questions to Consider You probably started your business for a number of reasons whether it was business growth goals, asset protection, tax advantages, or a combination of these and other reasons. However, if you want the asset protection and tax advantages, you must follow certain formal business
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If you become disabled or die unexpectedly, who will run your business? If you don’t know, you need a business succession plan. If your family cannot run your business, will they be able to afford to hire someone to replace you? If not, you should consider disability insurance and “key-person” life insurance. If you become
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