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.

How Compliance Programs Protect Your Business

Today, we are going to talk about compliance. This is going to be a general look at developing compliance programs instead of an in depth look at compliance of certain regulations (because, no matter what your industry, there are many). Compliance Program Defined A compliance program is a plan you put in place to help […]

Privacy Policy Lesson 5 – Sharing Information

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 Example from The Outsourced Associate Let’s jump right into the TOA Policy: Disclosure TOA does not sell or rent your […]

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 […]

Privacy Policy Lesson 1 – Getting Started

If you are planning to capture email addresses, or use analytics to track traffic on your website, you need to have a privacy policy. You need to tell people: what information you collect who you share it with how users can change the information how you will notify users of the changes to your policy […]

Don’t Miss This Golden Opportunity in Your Contract Recitals

Contracts should further your sales process. Your contract, since it is the last thing you give your client to close the deal should do just that: close the deal. It shouldn’t be a formality. It shouldn’t be something you are scared about. If you create a contract to work with your sales system, you don’t […]