Month: May 2016

LIABILITY PROTECTION FOR YOUR BUSINESS (PART 4)

Liability protection.  It’s something all business owners worry about, but in my experience the worry is often misplaced.  Good insurance will cover most injury-type claims (slip and falls, car accidents). This article will outline when you should call your business lawyer to set up liability […]

SURPRISINGLY REGULATED PROFESSIONS IN N.C.

Regulated professions. It’s a geeky hobby of mine, browsing through the statutes to see what interesting topics the legislature was thinking about.  Like in Illinois where one needs to be licensed to engage in the business of removing eggs from their shells.  Seriously. Here’s just […]

Don’t Learn About An Inventions Assignment the Hard Way

The jargon of the trade calls them “inventions assignment” or even more technically “employee proprietary information and inventions agreements”.  In layman’s terms, it means if you “invent” something using your employer’s tools or facilities, information provided to you, contacts, proprietary information, or related to its […]