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Contract Law
Scope, payment, term, IP, confidentiality, liability, dispute resolution. The seven clauses that determine whether your service agreement is a contract or wallpaper.
Intellectual Property
The January 2026 USPTO fee restructuring rewrote the math for small patent and trademark filers. Here is what changed, what stayed, and where strategy needs to shift.
Business Law
An hour of work and $50 to $500 stands between you and a functioning LLC. Here is the practical workflow, with the choices on the form that have real downstream consequences.
Business Law
The math finally tipped. Platform-plus-contract-attorney review now beats in-house review on cost and speed for most matter types. Here is the workflow that is working and where solos are getting tripped up.
Intellectual Property
Three forms of IP protection cover three different things. Pick the wrong one (or assume one of them protects something it does not) and you have spent money on a shield that does not cover the swing.
Contract Law
You can negotiate a reasonable indemnification clause without an attorney on every contract. Six steps, scope, third-party limit, mutuality, mechanics, carve-outs, cap interaction, get you 90 percent of the way there.
Business Law
After two years of litigation, CTA beneficial-ownership reporting is back to the original scope. If you formed an LLC or corporation and have not filed, you are now non-compliant. Here is the catch-up.
Contract Law
Five years of pandemic-era appellate rulings sharpened force majeure doctrine. Foreseeability, specific enumeration, and the impossibility-vs-cost line all moved. Here is what your clause needs to say in 2026.
Business Law
For most early-stage businesses the LLC vs. S-corp question is small, the LLC/S-corp vs. C-corp question is large, and it is less about taxes than about whose money you plan to take. The practical framework.
Intellectual Property
A provisional is a one-year option, not a patent. A non-provisional is the real thing. Here is when each makes sense, what the provisional actually buys you, and the drafting failures that cost founders the priority date.
Regulatory Compliance
A records retention policy is one of the most under-built parts of small-business compliance, and one of the cheapest to fix. Six steps and about a week of work get you a working policy.
Business Law
For lawyers, the fastest path to a bar complaint is not malpractice, it is trust accounting. Eight mistakes that look like theft on paper and how to keep your reconciliations clean.