Why Hire a Business Attorney?
When starting your own business, you need people on your team who you can trust. One of the best decisions you can make is to hire a business lawyer to be on your team. Business attorneys can help ensure the success of your business. They can help guide you through the formation of your business, the necessary filings with the state, assist with many legal issues that may arise, help defend against disputes, help file a trademark or copyright for your brand and connect you to insurance and other professionals to ensure that both you and your business are adequately protected.
Summer Young is here to help you step by step with your business. Some of the biggest reasons to hire Summer Young to help assist you with your business include the following:
Business Formation
There are multiple forms of businesses, each with their own drawbacks and benefits. Every business entity must register with the Secretary of State and many forms of business registrations require other forms of paperwork as well. For example, a corporation will require the registering party to submit the articles of incorporation that include information about the business.
Registering your Trademark/Copyright with the USPTO
To help protect your brand awareness and brand assets, it’s important to register with the USPTO’s (United States Patent and Trademark Office). Benefits of hiring Summer Young to register this for you includes: providing you with crucial legal advice about your trademark, conducting a clearance search before you file an application, preparing your application accurately, responding to legal correspondence from the USPTO, enforcing and maintaining your trademark rights, representing you at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, shielding you from fraudulent solicitation.
Protecting Your Assets
One of the benefits of hiring an attorney for your business is to protect everything you have worked so hard for, including intellectual and physical property. Summer Young will help assure you that all your assets are protected. It’s important to have the proper liability paperwork filled out by all employees and everyone that comes in contact with your business that is faced by risk. Hiring an attorney will make sure that you have your contracts and liabilities in place so you will be covered just in case a worst-case-scenario arises.
Forming and Maintaining Contracts
You must have a business attorney who will successfully draft and enforce necessary contracts. Contracts are the best way to protect your business as they can help protect all parties’ interests and resolve any trouble that could occur in the future.
Summer Young can create contracts for your clients that are personalized for the situation and beneficial to each client relationship.
Employment Matters
It is vital to hire a business lawyer to help protect you and your employees. Throughout the years, employment law has evolved into a very large area of law. When hiring and firing employees, you need to make sure your employment contracts are clear as to their duties so you don’t get stuck with having to keep on an employee that is not doing their job adequately, without fear of getting sued once you let them go.
Summer Young can help draft employee manuals addressing different expectations and rules for employees to follow. She can help you with conflicts and keep records of anyone who has worked for you.
Selling your Business
With the start of any business it is good to create a plan that would be executed when you are ready to move on from the business. Summer can help with the sale of your business by providing you with non-disclosure agreements and help guide you and your potential buyer with contracts covering mergers, acquisitions, and asset accumulation.