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.

Legal to English Dictionary: Pari Passu

On the weekends, it only seems appropriate to feature some of the more interesting of the legal words. I can assure you there are many. These are words that are no longer in use in the English language (or, in some cases, never were), or words that are only used in contracts. Most of these words are […]

Legal to English Dictionary: Corporate Veil

Legal The legal assumption that the acts of a corporation are not the actions of its shareholders so that the shareholders are exempt from liability for the corporation’s actions. English The idea of corporate veil has been extended to any entity that offers limited liability to its owners. The veil of the entity is what […]

Legal to English Dictionary: Vague Term

Legal Uncertain breadth of meaning. English Vague terms are allowed in contracts because you know the quality of the thing discussed, but you do not know the quantity. Though it is never great to have anything that is not certainly clear in a contract, vague terms are used all the time in contracts. A very widely known example […]

Fair Use and Commentary

I get a lot of questions about the “fair use” doctrine. These questions may come from someone simply curious about how certain businesses “get away” with using someone else’s copyrightable works or questions about how to develop a business model that uses portions of copyrightable works. Before we dive into the discussion, let’s get a […]

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 […]