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.

Dumb Starbucks – What You Can Do About Trademark Copycats

I don’t know if you heard about it, but last week a store opened in LA called “Dumb Starbucks”. Turns out, it was a stunt by Nathan Fielder, a comedian with a show on Comedy Central. Nathan Fielder’s show is all about giving terrible advice to small businesses. This stunt was an attempt to play […]

Legal to English Dictionary: Hereof

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 […]

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 […]

Your Systems and Your Legal Should Work Together

I have written before about systems. About the importance of having systems in your business. We have talked about how important systems are to your mission. Today, though, I want to talk about how important systems are for your legal. As you know, I firmly believe that legal impacts every aspect of your business. Every […]

5 Reasons Your Contract Won’t Help You Collect

Contracts are important to your business. Some contracts help you describe to your clients what you will do and what they will pay you. Some contracts explain to your customer what you are giving them (or more specifically what you are not giving them) when they purchase your products. One of the most common times a business need to […]