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.

DMCA Counter-Notice

Last week we talked about a DMCA take down notice and what it means for you. This week, we are going to talk about responding to that notice. As we discussed last week, the DMCA provides protections for internet service providers. The issue, as I mentioned last week, is that many copyright holders use this […]

How Can I Help You? [Reader Survey]

How can I help you? I’m serious. My goal is to become the go-to resource for how to start a business right. At least from a legal standpoint. I want to be what people find when they search for how to get started. I have been blogging and podcasting about the legal that impacts your […]

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 […]

Getting Started with A New Contract

I want to make sure you get the most out of your legal documents. After all, having it is only half the protection. You need to make sure your agreement is there for you when you need it. Here are a few of ways to make sure your agreement is working for you to protect […]

Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses

Last week we talked about why you might want a dispute resolution policy in your contract. This week, let’s talk about how to get that dispute resolution policy into your contract. First off, let’s talk about how this works. The law is designed to describe how certain parties relate to each other. The law, of […]