Episode 38: How Legal Fits In Your Business – An Exercise to Find Out

Are you an entrepreneur who is stuck wondering what legal needs you have in your business. What you need to protect your business. Legally.

You aren’t alone. As a business lawyer I get questions about this all the time.

It is good to understand legal concepts and how legal works generally. But, you need to understand how it works in your business. How you can use legal to help protect you.

In this episode, we are going to work together to discover where legal impacts your business and tell you what you can do about it. We will talk about:

How legal impacts your business
Your Foundation Legal Relationships
Your Internal Legal Relationships
Your External Legal Relationships
How to create a plan to build a legal foundation for your business

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