business law

13 May Ready For A Change In The Way Lawyers Bill You?

Posted at 21:46h in business law, Jared Burden, OPENgc, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

(This was first published on the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce website.) For as long as there have been lawyers, there have been clients to whom lawyers seemed expensive. In a world where you need certainty – knowing your costs, knowing your numbers – you never know how...

20 Mar COVID-19 Impacts and a Potential Avenue for Contract Relief

Posted at 15:42h in business law, contracts, COVID-19 pandemic, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

As the impacts of the COVID-19 virus spread and more businesses begin slowing or ceasing operations, some by government order, others voluntarily, many businesses are left wondering whether their contracts contain any avenue to excuse their non-performance during the emergency. Most turn immediately to the...

12 Mar Duties of Loyalty for Corporate Board Members versus LLC Managers

Posted at 14:34h in business law, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

Limited Liability Companies (LLC’s) are functional and flexible forms of ownership for operating companies as well as investment vehicles. As common as LLC’s are today, we ought to remember that relative to other forms of legal entities, LLC’s are still very new. It was only...

27 Jan Ideas Are Just That: Part 3

Posted at 17:00h in business law, entrepreneurship, ideas, Jared Burden, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia 0 Comments

We’ve been sharing a series of blog posts and videos here and here about how an idea is just that: an idea, and how there are some basic, critical things a high-potential start-up technology company founder must do in order to make any idea worth...

06 Jan Wow! Andy Brownstein Has Joined as A Partner!

Posted at 19:34h in Andy Brownstein, business law, corporate financing, entrepreneurship, partner, Recent GreeneHurlocker News 0 Comments

Andy Brownstein joined us on January 1 as partner in the firm and focuses his law practice on business law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and investment banking. He's working in our Richmond office. Andy counsels business clients and entrepreneurs in buy and sell-side...

02 Jan Ideas are Just That: Part 2

Posted at 17:42h in business law, entrepreneurship, ideas, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

Jared Burden explains that the co-founders of a new tech business based on a great idea need to keep in mind several powerful elements of that relationship for it to have its best chance for growth and success. https://youtu.be/IyswCp6OFLA Read his Ideas Are Just That: Part 1...

02 Jan Client Conversations

Posted at 17:08h in business law, Harrisonburg, Jared Burden, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

Just prior to the holidays, we stopped by to see Randy Seitz, CEO of our long-term Harrisonburg client Blueline, to check in and get his opinion on what is important to his company in working with their law firm. This short video includes the things...

10 Nov Ideas are Just That: Part 1

Posted at 15:48h in business law, ideas, Jared Burden, OPENgc, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

That moment you realize you have an idea worth a business is a great moment. Sometimes it’s an epiphany on the road to Damascus. Sometimes it’s a slow dawning after a grind lasting several years. But however it happens, it’s time to sit back and...

06 Nov Classification of Employees under the IRS Guidelines

Posted at 19:23h in business law, employment law, Fair Labor Standards Act, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

In our last post, we discussed analysis of the employer/independent contractor relationship through the lens of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Employers who hire individuals as independent contractors – because it seems less often the case that an independent contractor is errantly classified as...

16 Oct Employer Basics: FLSA Classification of Employees

Posted at 15:34h in business law, employment law, OPENgc, The GreeneHurlocker Blog 0 Comments

There is seldom a bad time for employers to reevaluate employee classifications. While some occasions are less optimal than others, for example, reevaluation upon an employer’s receipt of a complaint from the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”), employers should carve out time each year...