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- Category: 2-Minute Tips
- Understanding Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Trademarks, and When to Register
- Negotiating Your Commercial Lease: Why You Should Not Accept the First Offer
- Why Running Your Business is Like Being on Star Trek
- Tisha’s Two-Minute Tips: Employee vs Independent Contractor
- Tisha’s Two-Minute Tips: Handshakes, Invoices, and the Law: Do You Really Need a Written Contract?
- May the Fourth Be With You: Why Now Is the Time to Start Your Business
- Tisha’s Two-Minute Tips: Funding Your Startup: Personal Equity vs. Loans
- Tisha’s Two-Minute Tips: Understanding S-Corps – What Are They Exactly?
- No More Willpower: How to Actually Stick to Your Resolutions and Business Goals
- How Emojis as Legal Evidence Can Impact Your Business
- Court or Arbitration – Which is Better?
- From Bacon to Boardrooms: Fiduciary Duties & Smart Business Choices
- Who Should Draft the MOU?
- Close the Strategy Execution Gap: Why General Advice Isn’t Enough for Your Business
- Did I Pick the Right Legal Entity for My Business?
- Holy Copyright, Batman! Is It a Copyright or a Trademark?
- 2-Minute Tip: What Business Licenses And Permits Do You Need?
- 2-Minute Tip: Texas Sexual Harassment Law Protection
- In Honor of Star Wars Day: Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Start Your Business
- 2-Minute Tip: A Question for You
- 2-Minute Tip: What’s the Difference Between a Contract and a MOU?
- 2-Minute Tip: Escaping the Hamster Wheel of Your Life
- 2-Minute Tip: The Importance of Taking Small Steps
- 2-Minute Tip: Happy Lunar New Year
- 2-Minute Tip: Should You Be an LLC or a 501(c)(3)?
- 2-Minute Tip: Special Invitation (time-sensitive)
- 2-Minute Tip: Important Announcement for New Veteran Owned Businesses
- 2-Minute Tip: How To Guarantee Payments In The Face Of Uncertainty
- 2-Minute Tip: Breakthrough Overwhelm and Decision Fatigue with a Legal Contract
- 2-Minute Tip: Ready & Resilient
- 2-Minute Tip: Sexual Harassment Liability for ALL Texas Employers effective 9/1/2021
- 2-Minute Tip: Should You Get Insurance for Your Business?
- 2-Minute Tip: What Is the Texas Product Development Fund?
- 2-Minute Tip: How Severance Agreements Are Like Baseball
- 2-Minute Tip: What to Keep and When to Shred
- 2-Minute Tip: The $535 Million Business “Dating” Mistake
- 2-Minute Tip: Happy Chinese New Year
- 2-Minute Tip: The Biggest Myth About LOIs and MOUs
- 2-Minute Tip: How to Do Business During a Government Shutdown
- 2-Minute Tip: How Parallel Parking is a Parallel to Your Business
- 2-Minute Tip: What If Your State Doesn’t Recognize B-Corps
- 2-Minute Tip: A Special Gift For You
- 2-Minute Tip: 20 Little Known Ways to Fund Your Business
- 2-Minute Tip: College Entrepreneurs and Gas
- 2-Minute Tip: How to Create the Perfect Arbitration Clause (and why you may not want it)
- 2-Minute Tip: Why You Shouldn’t Pay for a Registered Agent
- 2-Minute Tip: Building Your Business Credit
- 2-Minute Tip: Which is Best: LLC or S Corp?
- 2-Minute Tip: Attorney Client Privilege
- 2-Minute Tip: Do These Jeans Make Me Look Fat?
- 2-Minute Tip: It Only Takes 10 Seconds to Protect Yourself from Credit Fraud
- 2-Minute Tip: Essential Advice for Trade Secret Protection
- 2-Minute Tip: Is Your Customer List a Trade Secret?
- 2-Minute Tip: How to Get Free Help For Your Business
- 2-Minute Tip: Safely Disposing of Old Documents
- 2-Minute Tip: What To Do After You Made a Six Figure Mistake
- 2-Minute Tip: Business Sues Customers for One-Star Yelp Review
- 2-Minute Tip: How do I Sue Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
- 2-Minute Tip: New Year’s Resolution Reset
- 2-Minute Tip: Corporate Compliance Scam – Don’t Fall for It
- 2-Minute Tip: Durable Power of Attorney
- 2-Minute Tip: Blog Law
- 2-Minute Tip: How to Know If Your Business Needs A Copyright or A Trademark
- 2-Minute Tip: Labor Law Compliance Scam (Updated) – Don’t Fall for It
- 2-Minute Tip: Why Lawyers Are So Expensive
- 2-Minute Tip: A Post 4th of July Message
- 2-Minute Tip: Sweepstakes Could Cost You More than the Prize Money
- 2-Minute Tip: Taking Your Business to the Next Level
- 2-Minute Tip: Want To Sue Your Credit Card Company?
- 2-Minute Tip: Is Your Customer List a Trade Secret?
- 2-Minute Tip: Valuable Trade Secrets, Have Them You Do
- 2-Minute Tip: Using Text Messages to Win Your Court Case
- 2-Minute Tip: How One Unhappy Momma Unearthed Proflowers’ Bad Website Terms & Conditions
- 2-Minute Tip: Native Advertising: Shrewd Marketing or Deceptive Practice?
- 2-Minute Tip: 2.9 Million Reasons Your Business Makes the World Better
- 2-Minute Tip: Hotel hoarding or complimentary collection? You decide.
- 2-Minute Tip: $105 Million Judgment Against Business For Improper Internet Sales
- 2-Minute Tip: Data Privacy
- 2-Minute Tip: McDonald’s Distasteful Defense
- 2-Minute Tip: End of the Year Checklist
- 2-Minute Tip: Intergalactic Releases
- 2-Minute Tip: Travel Expense – What Can You Deduct?
- 2-Minute Tip: Pizza Box Contracts
- 2-Minute Video Tip: Default Foods
- 2-Minute Video Tip: Imperfect Action
- 2-Minute Video Tip: E-commerce
- Category: Business
- Birthday Freebies Are Like Internet Legal Forms
- Picking Your Business Structure is Easier Than You Think
- Business Alert: FinCEN Revises BOI Reporting Requirements!
- The Legal Implications of Implied Partnerships
- Copying Is Wrong If It Has a Copyright
- When a Business Offer or Coaching Program Is a Scam
- What Happens When It’s Time to Close Your Business
- Trademark War of the Roses…and Beer…and Horses
- Why and How To Do a Texas Series LLC
- How To Pick a Good (and Legal) Business Name
- Protecting Your Business With Terms and Conditions
- Corporate Law: Why Corporations Are Like Hot Dogs
- Don’t Let Your Corporate Protection Melt Away
- Contract Disputes and Watermelons
- Some Things Don’t Mix – Like Food Courts and Diamonds
- Entrepreneurs Lost $1 Million in Legal Fees But Are the Real Winners
- What You Need to Know About Asset Protection and the Texas Series LLC
- If You Can’t Tell If It’s a Parody . . . It’s Not
- Don’t Let Your LLC Protection Disappear Into Thin Air
- What Do You Tip For a Kidney?
- Benefit Corporations – Eat More Ice Cream and Save the World
- A Case of Employment Law With Some Serious Bite To It
- The Blame the Bean Defense Doesn’t Work
- Naming Your Business: What the Fluff Should You Call It?
- Attorney Client Privilege: I’m Your Lawyer – Not Your Judge
- Why Starting an LLC is Like Throwing a BBQ
- Something Special for all the “Momtrepreneurs”
- Protecting Your Trademarks Can Be a Life Saver
- CAN-SPAM and Canned Spam
- Bound By Arbitration? Do You Know What It Means?
- Shhh – Don’t Tell Anyone. It’s a Trade Secret.
- Document Retention Guidelines: What Every Business Needs to Know
- Self-Audits Can Save You Thousands
- Protecting Your Business from Tax Scams
- Texas Business Licenses & Permits Guide (2026-2027)
- What’s More Important: The Product or the Package?
- Valentine’s Season Is a Good Time to Think About Protecting Your Company with a Love Contract
- Bite Size Answers to Cocktail Party Legal Questions
- Holiday Cheers Without Legal Fears
- Can You Deduct Your Turkey Day Travel Expenses?
- Faux Employees & Tofurkey – No Substitute for The Real Thing
- CDFI Friendly Fort Worth Launches New 0% Interest Loan Program for Small Businesses
- You’re About to Enter the Cranberry Zone
- Why the P in IPO Could Stand for Parmesan
- How Halloween Candy Could Affect Your Commercial Lease
- Start-up Business Checklist: How to Set Up Your LLC/Corporation to Maximize Legal Protection
- Striking Out By Not Upholding Your Fiduciary Duties
- Default Judgment – Hiding From a Lawsuit Doesn’t Make It Go Away
- Save Your Money by Being on the Lookout for This Lemon!
- Stay Away From Popcorn at the Movies? Resistance Is Futile!
- What Dining Aldesco Means For Your Business
- Why LegalZoom is Like a Tomato?
- Social Purpose Corporations: A Recipe for a New Type of American Corporation
- Should I separate my business ideas into different companies?
- Navigating the Tax Landscape: A Quick Look at LLC Tax Options
- Why a Social Enterprise is Better Than a Non-Profit
- Abundance and Generosity Can Coexist—Let’s Build a Future of “And”
- Understanding Texas Business Courts: A Specialized Forum for Complex Commercial Disputes
- The $1,000 Tap: Why a Business Attorney Makes a Great Coach
- The Conflict of Interest Trap: Why the Nonprofit + LLC Model Falls Short
- Can a Social Enterprise or Nonprofit Include Attorneys’ Fees in a Grant Proposal? Yes—Here’s How and Why
- SPC vs. PBC in Texas: Which One’s Right for Your Social Enterprise?
- Texas Business Licenses & Permits Guide (2024-2025)
- Check Out This Valuable Resource If You’re Thinking of Starting a Business in Texas
- Are tariffs affecting your business?
- Changing the Guard: How to Transition Ownership of Your Social Enterprise
- Redefining Success: Measuring Impact Beyond Profit
- Hope as a Warrior Emotion
- Social Purpose Corporation: Stop Being Busy and Start Doing What You Love!
- 6th Annual #SBDCDay
- Want a Little More Prosperity for 2022?
- 5th Annual #SBDCDay
- The Secret of Tootsie Roll’s Business Success (and How You Can Do It Too)
- Rapid Business Expansion in 20 Minutes
- Incentives for Military Veteran-Owned Businesses
- Be Thankful You Didn’t Text This
- 3 Ways to Protect Yourself After the Equifax Data Breach
- Find Out if You’ve Been Affected by the Equifax Security Breach
- Little Known Ways to Business Success
- How to Search Trademarks for Free
- Just in case you bought something from Proflowers yesterday. . .
- How a Good Intention Caused Liability
- Imperfect Action and Starting Your Own Business
- Why I Didn’t Buy a Ticket to Win the $1.5 Billion Powerball Lottery
- Happy Marty McFly Day!
- The Truth Lawyers Don’t Want You to Know
- Don’t Let Your Commercial Lease Leave a Sour Taste in Your Mouth
- End of Life Documents: Getting Everything Where You Want It to Go
- What Dr. Seuss Taught Us About Sales
- How Failure Is the First Step Toward Success
- Blog Law: Avoid Legal Troubles with Your Blog
- From Cookie Obsession to Global Domination – Birth of a Franchise
- Are You Purchasing an Asset or an Overpriced Snack?
- How to Get an EIN for FREE in Only 5 Minutes
- What You Need to Know About Asset Protection and the Texas Series LLC
- Peep Art: Pop Culture or Product Liability
- Chick-O-Stick’s Default Judgment: Empty Calories or Sweet Reward?
- Dining Aldesco: Break time or Overtime
- Finding Answers to the FAQs of Growing Businesses
- A Case of Employment Law With Some Serious Bite To It
- And Now a Word from Our Sponsor . . .
- What’s Good for the Goose Is Bad for the Turkey
- Why the P in IPO Could Stand for Parmesan
- The Skittles Effect: Good Faith and Fair Dealings
- Government Contracts: How Tootsie Rolls Helped us Win World War II
- Bobbing for profits and brand protection: What’s the value of your brand?
- Entrepreneurs Make the World a Spicier Place
- Brand Acquisition: How Twinkies Have Risen From the Grave
- Update on Patents and Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Potentially Lethal Legal Combinations in Contracts
- What Patents Have to Do with Chocolate Chips
- Creating Legal Partnerships
- Exploring The Forgotten Zones
- Why Easter Eggs Are Like The Series LLC
- Why You Don’t Have to Go to the Pharmacy for Thin Mints
- Cash Awards for Claims from Hispanic or Female Farmers
- PB and J with a Side of Tax Deductions
- Nutmeg, the iPhone of the 1600’s, Is Still Making Law Today
- Why Acquiring Brands Like Twinkies is Better Than Hording Them
- Why Your Trademark’s Sound is as Important as Its Looks
- How is your business like two of the most recognized brands in the world?
- How Halloween Candy Could Affect Your Commercial Lease
- Category: Copyrights and Trademarks
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- Category: Holiday
- Category: How To
- Category: Legal Explanations
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