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The legal myth that we are busting today is that in Australia your workers and you cannot choose whether or not to be an employee, you can’t choose whether someone is an employee or a contractor, the law decides. Now this is different in every country so please get proper Read more…
What are business structures and why do you need to know about them? So when people start trading, you’ve got the option of just simply picking out your shingle, starting to run your business, and basically you are your business. Now there are some downsides to that. One of Read more…
Hey there, today we are talking about avoiding the lemming mistake in your business. You know those little lemmings, you’ve seen the cartoons of them going off the cliff and then the next one goes and then another, and another, and another. Well a lot of small businesses do that Read more…
One thing that I have seen in my 20 plus years of being a lawyer that causes one of the biggest problems in small business is simply just not having things down in writing. The potential disaster that this causes is not usually so much to do with one person Read more…
What I’m talking about is the perspective of terms and conditions. So, you’re offering goods or services, and you want to let people know what the deal is. This is different from collaboration, because when you collaborate with somebody, which I’ve dealt with in a different blog, you negotiate and Read more…
Hey, it is Cathryn Warburton again, your legal lioness and we are talking about bullet proofing your business. Business bullies, is one of the topics that really gets me going. Bullies are something that I do not tolerate at all and in fact that’s one of the reasons why I Read more…
What do you do if you get into a dispute with a client? This is a tricky one, often it relates to nonpayment, I have two pieces of advice in relation to that. There’s two methods of dealing with it, one is always taking money upfront. If you always get Read more…
One mistake I see people making too frequently is selecting the wrong lawyer for their business. I have lost count of the number of people who’ve come to me, very unhappy with their previous lawyer. Often in my situation, because I do intellectual property and commercial law, it would be Read more…
What is a legal action plan and why would you want one? Think about it like this: If you are going shopping and you don’t have a shopping list, but you’re really hungry, do you know what’s gonna happen? Maybe you need three things, you go into the store and Read more…
One thing that clients ask me repeatedly, is what do I do if I’ve got a legal question? How do I contact you? Who do I speak to? You click on the link, book in, you pay a tiny fee, and then we brainstorm together. We have a laser Read more…