(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...