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.

What to Consider in a Business Sale

If you spend much time as an entrepreneur, you may find yourself with a business sale. This may be the opportunity to purchase another business or to sell your own. You may even begin your entrepreneurial journey with the purchase of an already-existing business. If that is the case, you should understand a few things […]

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 […]

Growing Your Business With Better Legal Planning

Sometimes, legal doesn’t seem very exciting. Legal is what you feel like you need to do to “protect yourself”. You think it is something you can get to when you get to it. You don’t think about legal in the same way you think about your business systems. The way you think about your product. […]

The Best Way to Protect Your Idea – It’s Not an NDA

If you have been around the startup world for long, you have seen a Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA). You have either been asked to sign one, or you have asked someone to sign one. This is one of the most overused, least understood contracts in the startup world. Everyone thinks that their idea is the next […]