Guides to Help You Better Understand Legal

Legal is difficult. Legal concepts bombard you every day, but it is often difficult to find ways to understand the legal that affects your business everyday without going through a business law class or law school. Lucky for you, I went to three years of mind-numbing, soul-selling, brain-altering classes to help you protect your business.

I want to share what I know with you!

There are core legal concepts that impact your business every day, whether you know it or not. Many of those legal concepts are entire courses in law school. I work here to translate those difficult legal concepts into english. More than that, I work to make the content easy to consume and understand. One of the ways I do that is through these Legal to English Guides. These guides can help get you started in a particular topic in a way that is more effective than simply combing through the archives in a particular category. These guides give you some perspective on what how the various legal concepts apply to your business. As I create more content on these topics, I will add them to the guides. As we are continually adding new content, we will create new guides as appropriate.

Legal to English Guides

To get started with a concept, choose the legal issue you want to learn more about and you will be taken straight to the guide. There is no opt-in required! Just free content to help you better understand the legal that affects your business everyday.

Guide to Understanding Contracts

This guide helps you understand many of the issues you face when you read (or write) contracts. Contracts are an important part of your business. You see them everyday. This guide will help you be better prepared to understand the finer details of a contract.

Guide to Intellectual Property

Intellectual property is a part of almost every business today. Content marketers and online entrepreneurs create intellectual property everyday. This guide gives you the basics to understand what intellectual property is and how you can protect yours.

Privacy Policy Lesson 6 – Everything But the Kitchen Sink

Need a Refresher on What We have Discussed: Lesson 1 – Getting Started Lesson 2 – Writing the First Paragraph Lesson 3 – What Information Are You Collecting? Lesson 4 – How You Use Information Lesson 5 – Sharing Information Example from The Outsourced Associate First, let’s look at communication through the site: Communication The […]

Legal to English Dictionary: Work for Hire

Legal A work produced either by an employee within the scope of employment or by an independent contractor under a written agreement. English Copyright attaches to the author of the intellectual property. The author of the intellectual property is the person who actually created it. The only way to circumvent this is to have a […]

What is Trademark Infringement?

For more on trademark infringement, check out the podcast version. We are continuing our discussion on trademark basics. In the past couple of weeks, we have covered: the difference between a trademark and a service mark and the three levels of protection available for your mark. This week, we are going to discuss from what […]

Monitor Your Trademark

Sometimes, when you are just starting out, it doesn’t make sense to attack all trademark issues like the University of Alabama does. It is, however, still important to have a plan in place. Your plan needs to include two primary objectives: 1. Monitoring your trademark 2. Protecting your trademark You can be as specific as […]

Protecting Your Rights in Collection

So, you have a contract and it is signed by both parties (you did keep a copy right?) and things are moving along. Your client pays like they are supposed to, you do work like you are supposed, there are no problems at all with the relationship. Until there are. What do you do? How […]