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Category: Business Law

Employment Agreements

Employment Agreements: Independent Contractors, Employers/Employees

Independent contractor agreements are pretty important right now because in 2022, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that would change how we classify independent contractors.  This will alter the way we create contracts and will change the circumstances that are facing lots of small businesses using independent contractors currently

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When Girls Use a Masculine Name in Business

When Girls Use a Masculine Name in Business

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” – “Romeo and Juliet,” William Shakespeare   When Juliet utters these words to her Romeo, it is because she is questioning naming conventions. I did the same as I sat in the

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Legal Status, Tax Status, & Contracts 101

Legal Status, Tax Status, & Contracts 101

This year we’ve been talking about business entities. So far we’ve covered sole proprietorships, and registered entities like limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and corporations.  A question that pops up frequently in our small business practice is the distinction between tax status and legal status. Let’s dive in. What’s a

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Business Registrations: Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, Corporations, & LLCs

Sole Proprietorships

A sole proprietorship is the simplest, least regulated, and most common form of business organization in the United States (but not in Georgia, that is the LLC, which we will get to later). Legally and for tax purposes, the individual owner is the business. The liabilities and profits are personal

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small business license

Small Business License Applications & Renewals

January and February are all about meeting annual deadlines for small businesses. It’s important because in the early part of the year, businesses receive a lot of deadline requirements; registrations, license renewals, and taxes to name a few. We are here to help you every step of the way to

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Employee Activism & Workers Rights

Employees have been taking their employers to task in 2022, with more organized and outspoken social movements, organizing and forming unions, and generally educating the other to a host of issues, including civil rights issues which have been negatively impacted following a slate of state laws and U.S. Supreme Court

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A Horse Race For the “Big 13”

The summer has been an eventful one for big changes in big companies. One of our favorite publications recently released a fun infographic on market cap data for the entertainment sector, which insights we will discuss below. Out of the 13 companies studied, the big three media companies currently, by

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Starz✨ Is this the year to shine?

In 2016, Lionsgate acquired television network Starz for $4.4 billion U.S. dollars. Starz has produced award-winning shows, like Power, Outlander, and P-Valley. But due to production delays and a soft quarter, Lionsgate has again chosen to sell or partially sell the service. For now, it will be split into two

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The Times: are they Medieval?

“The battle outside ragin’/ Will soon shake your windows/ And rattle your walls/ For the times they are a-changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 1964 classic opines on the one guarantee in life: change. In the last month, change abounds as workers organize across the United States as people take charge of their

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Unionize: Starbucks & Animation Guild (TAG)

In the United States, employees have the statutory right to form labor unions under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and which right is administered and facilitated by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRA guarantees the right of most private sector employees to organize into unions, engage in

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