Small Business
On Monday, October 27, 2008, and Monday, November 10, 2008, along with attorney Elliot Richardson of Horwitz, Richardson and Baker, I'll be presenting "Legal Assistance for Entrepreneurs" and "Small Businesses and Human Resources" seminars at Orly's Cafe, 55th and Hyde Park Blvd., 1660 E 55th St, Chicago. These presentations are organized and run by Foreign [...]
As an addendum to my last post about Avvo, check out the following: Besides taking an extraordinary amount of time to complete a profile, and besides not being able to cancel an account (i.e., "unclaim" a profile), I've discovered another issue with Avvo's online lawyer rating system. When a lawyer is in the back-end of [...]
After reading a recent Chicago Tribune article regarding Avvo’s (www.Avvo.com) online lawyer rating system, I decided to check out the site for myself. At first glance, the site looks interesting, useful and credible. The same as many other online consumer, ratings, networking and other business related sites. I enjoy these sites, use them and believe [...]
On June 20, 2008, I gave my 4th seminar in the last 2 years for the City of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs and Licensing. Like my prior seminars for them, it focused on labor and employment law for small and medium sized businesses (2-1,000 employees). The handout for this, which reflects 2008 legal changes, [...]
This post continues the discussion that began with my prior post. After deciding whether to have employment policies and which policies to have, a business should determine what form these policies should take. Such forms may include an electronic document, a written memo, a multi-page document, a bound manual, or a combination of these. Alternatively, [...]
