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.

Getting Started with Intellectual Property

Hello, How has your week been? Can you believe summer is coming to a close? It is strange to see all of the back to school commercials and advertisements. I have even seen Christmas decorations in some stores! Last month, we focused a lot on contracts and how to draft them. Contracts are integral to […]

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 […]

Building a Compliance Program

I trust you survived the shutdown of the United States Federal Government okay? It has been an interesting week for me as I deal with a number of federal departments for my clients. I found many of the tasks I planned to do this week had to wait. How about you? Did the shutdown hinder […]

Is Your Contract the Cork in Your Sales Funnel?

It’s a common problem. You build a relationship. You convince the prospect. You close the sale. But, the contract kills the deal. It doesn’t matter whether you wrote your own contract, used a form you bought online, or paid a lawyer to draft your contract. If it doesn’t work with your sales process, it can […]

Contract Amendments and Other Changes

Contracts are a necessary part of business. As we have discussed before, you should have contract for every type of relationship you have in your business. And, you should have a contract for every instance of a particular type of relationship in your business. That is why the Corporate Counsel Program is about reviewing contracts […]