Tag: business
How Outsourced General Counsel Can Protect Your Business and Help You Enjoy Continued Success
Posted on May 27, 2021
As a business owner, you may feel like your to-do list never ends. Juggling sales, marketing, budgetary concerns, inventory, and employee issues can leave many business owners overwhelmed and overworked. Handling everything on your own is not only stressful but also unsustainable in the long run. Learning how to properly delegate is essential to your business’s long-term success. One way you can delegate responsibilities and ensure that you are not making mistakes that can land you in legal trouble is to utilize outsourced general counsel. What is Outsourced General Counsel? […]
Resume Red Flags and Green Flags for Choosing the Right Employee
Posted on May 12, 2014
A well-crafted resume offers an employer a glimpse into the professional life of a potential new hire. A small business is only as good as the individuals it employs, and all small business owners must be careful to choose the right new employee. Our small business law attorneys at the the Gierach Law Firm have compiled this useful list of resume red flags and green flags in order to help you choose the perfect employee for the job. Resume Green Flags Resume green flags are those kernels of information contained […]
Protecting Your Ownership of Employee-Created Intellectual Property
Posted on September 8, 2013
An employer might assume that any intellectual property created by an employee in connection with the employee’s job duties will automatically become the exclusive property of the employer. However, without taking the necessary measures to ensure this, that assumption could prove incorrect. Employee Inventions Where There Is NO Enforceable Assignment-of-Inventions Agreement. Often, in the absence of an assignment-of-inventions agreement, an employee presumptively owns any inventions that he or she creates that are entitled to protection under applicable trade-secret or patent law. This means that the employer may have no ownership […]