How fit is your business? This PowerPoint provides overview information on four important aspects of your business’s legal “fitness”:

• Business Structure
• Employment
• Agreements and Contracts
• Business Succession

Resource articles:

Business Structure

• Questions to Consider Before Scaling Your Business, by David Burkoff
• Legal Checklist for Success as you Grow Your Business, by David Burkoff
• Choosing an Entity for Your Business, by Tom Cullen

Employment

• Federal Contractor Affirmative Action Requirements: Are You Keeping Up?, by Sarah Lamar
• The Top Five Self-Audits Every Employer Should Perform, by Sarah Lamar
• Employee or Independent Contractor? The Basics for Business Owners, by Wade W. Herring, II

Agreements and Contracts

• Business Owners: What’s in the Terms and Conditions You Give to Your Customers?, by Nick Laybourn
• Understanding Business Contracts, by Ben Hartman
• Important Considerations in Negotiating a Commercial Lease Agreement, by HunterMaclean Attorneys
• The Power and Pitfalls of Indemnity Clauses in Contracts, by Nick Laybourn
• Business Contracts: Understanding the Ties That Bind, by Allan Galis
• Good Credit Practices to Minimize Business Losses, by HunterMaclean Attorneys
• Buy/Sell Agreement Panel Highlight Video
• Buy/Sell Agreement Panel Full Program

Cybersecurity Risks

• Cybersecurity Basics for Boards of Directors, by Diana McKenzie and Nicole Pope
• Video: 2017 Critical Issues Forum on Cybersecurity

Business Succession Planning

• Plan for Strategic Business Succession, by Ben Hartman
• Exit Planning Strategies, by HunterMaclean Attorneys