Buying, Owning and Selling a Business

top secretA long awaited Federal Law on trade secret misappropriation was signed into effect last month. The new law, titled the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, or “DTSA”, creates a Federal cause of action for businesses who own trade secrets against individuals who have misappropriated the business’ confidential information. The law creates a uniform definition of

Many businesses, including law firms and accounting firms, employ interns over the summer. There are a number of reasons such an arrangement works for both sides.

For the business, interns provide bodies that can fill voids in the work staff, since many people center their vacations over the summer. The internship also provides the business

We learned this morning about another data breach, this time relating to the widely used Cloud Service called Dropbox.

Steve Kovach, of BusinessInsider.com reported yesterday that over 7 million Dropbox passwords have been compromised.

After the Target, Home Depot and other recent breaches, this isn’t a big surprise. However, since many lawyers use dropbox

One of my partners, Eric Raskopf, who practices criminal and traffic defense work, recently posted to his blog, On Legal Ground, an article about someone losing their car as a result of being stopped while involved in criminal activity. Before you say, “Wait, that’s never going to happen to me,” read about what your

If you exclude attorneys fees for services (such as preparing an operating agreement and determining what additional filings, permits, etc. that the business will need to get up and running), the most basic cost to register or “organize” an LLC currently in Wisconsin online is $130.00 paid to the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, which