News & Views of An Indiana Business Lawyer

Some law blogs that may be interests to some businesses: FDA Law Update - just what says it is, a way to keep up to date on happenings at the FDA. OSHA Law Blog . This may be of more interest ...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogs-to-check-out.html

Georgia Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning Blog: Estate Planning: A Three-Step Strategy > The estate planning pyramid gives a hierarchy of goals for estate > planning. This pyrami...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/georgia-wills-trusts-and-estate.html

Considering garden leave's novelty, I thought a collection of news articles descring the use of garden leave might be of some help and interest. Gardening leave has VCCP hanging on phone - Tel...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/garden-leave-in-action.html

No, garden leave do think of garden leave as a panacea for all problems of departing employees. I can easily see that a departing employee (and/or their new company) may find the costs of litigat...

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Now that we have an Indiana Court of Appeals decision describing the fiduciary duty of an LLC to its members, I almost thought to scratch this post. However, Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer B...

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First, the business needs to decide if a garden leave is a suitable tool. Suitable meaning that it makes economic sense. Second, the employment contract needs a specific clause that expressly pr...

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Notes from a project for my father that never seems to get very far. With some luck the following listing of Indiana sources might be of use: Indiana Code - Licensing Laws Indiana Administrativ...

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I try to make the point that what has made Bill Gates all his money is his intellectual property: trademarks, patents and even copyrights. Pennsylvania Trusts and Estates Blog takes this a step f...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/intellectual-property-and-business.html

I cannot disagree with Contract Drafting for the 21st Century: A Conversation Between Ken Adams and Ron Friedmann from Strategic Legal Technology. > Ron: It sounds like you think contrac...

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Think you got an idea> Give Reading Word's The dark side of IP a read. > Business people often scoff at lawyers that "you have to take risks > in business." True, but the risk...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-acceptable-business-risk-for.html

It is a relief to have others repeat my points about preventive law. I wonder how much of it is passed off as being self-serving. It is not. What most do not realize is that cleaning up the mess ...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/preventive-law-and-trade-secrets.html

Twitter may not seem related to business. Think again, what I am seeing as marketing advice is to join Twitter (I have and you can follow me, if you like). Therefore, in the hope of preventing l...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/tweeting-facebook-be-careful-what-you.html

Think About What You Are Getting. That is what I read as the point in 3 Geeks and a Law Blog's Cost Recovery…Such a deal : > You can see it in recent news items discussing the atti...

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Even if the economy continues its limpid trends though this year, someone ssomehwere will be looking at a franchise opportunity. Franchising offers wonderful opportunites to both the franchisor a...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/things-to-do-before-signing-that.html

TechCrunch's Apple And IBM Resolve Employment Dispute; Papermaster Can Now Get To Work raises this question: > Well, now he can finally go make future iPhones and iPods for Apple. >...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/non-compete-agreements-are-they-worth.html

Not endorsing any of the following, just providing them for informational purposes. About freeERISA.com > FreeERISA.com is intended as a useful, website where visitors may > view ...

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Yes, quite behind the times in posting this review from The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: > There are four strands of argument here: a technological cla...

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Tough Times for Lenders blog posted Ticking Sound: Will the Current Tax Valuation Drag You Down?. Which brought back to mind this headline: State sets sights on back taxes . This comes from that...

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The Indiana Court of Appeals decided that Indiana Liability companies have a continuing fiduciary duty to a former shareholder or member to accurately report the company's fiscal results to the I...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2009/11/indiana-case-law-llc-ficuciary-duty-to.html

Docuticker blog published SBA - Frequently Asked Questions which I think fits well with this blog. > Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy > From e-mail: >  ...

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Never having had any success with this concept in Indiana, I still like its potential. Articles like Law.com's Small Law Firm Woos Clients With Monthly Subscription Fees keep me believing that t...

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I should point out that for the business, a long term relationship leads to lower costs and better service. Lawyers get to provide a better service (and if you do not think that matters to your l...

http://haslerlaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-should-businesses-have-long-term.html

I have not tried this out but Iam intrigued enough to pass it along.. Channel Signal seems to collect online chatter about a company and presents the information to the business. This knowledge ...

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From Rush Nigut's Rush on Business blog: > The Franchise King has a great list of 20 small business blogs that > have the right stuff > . > These blogs possess some of th...

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Here I go again, trying to rise out of the ashes. Such is the feeling this late evening after what seems like a furious pummeling received in 2009. > What does not kill me, makes me str...

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