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.

Copyright Basics

Copyright impacts almost every business owner, especially the online entrepreneur. If you have a blog, a podcast, a membership area, an e-book, an information product, or any of the variety of other types of content pieces used by online entrepreneurs, you have rights in those works. Those rights are covered by Copyright. Copyright is a […]

Equal Equity, Unequal Investment – Bootstrapping Options

We have covered a lot over the past several days. We have talked about Limited Liability, Compliance Programs, the Different Types of Entities, and some funding basics for starting your entity. Now, we are going to look at the starting of a company. Today, we will talk about self-funding a business and how it might […]

Legal to English Dictionary: Buy-Sell Agreement

Legal An equity transfer agreement that commits the equity holder to sell, and the entity or other owners to buy, the equity interest at a fixed price when specified events occur. English This agreement is one of the primary ways closely held businesses control who owns equity in the entity. Often incorporated into the Operating Agreement for a Limited […]

Conversion

This week’s podcast episode with Tony Summerville was all about the why of converting an LLC to a Corporation. Tony gives us a behind-the-scenes look of his process of making the decision of conversion. As an exclusive for you, I wanted to make our conversation this week about the how of that conversion. I would […]

5 Reasons Your Contract Won’t Help You Collect

Contracts are important to your business. Some contracts help you describe to your clients what you will do and what they will pay you. Some contracts explain to your customer what you are giving them (or more specifically what you are not giving them) when they purchase your products. One of the most common times a business need to […]