When Do You Need an LLC?

A limited liability company (LLC) is a business entity that provides enhanced liability protection for the business owner, and the tax benefit of a partnership. Your LLC is created and governed by your specific state’s law, and it can have one owner or multiple owners.

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Using Licensed Professionals For Your Business

As creatives, we are trained to look for beauty, glitzy, attention-catching, but when business and creativity overlap, you can never fall for the illusion that shiny marketing can sometimes create: shiny doesn’t always mean real.  If you want to build a solid foundation for your business and operate it successfully, every business owner needs three “advisors” on their “team”: the best accountant, the best lawyer, and the best advisor you can find.

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The Story Behind Why I Created The Creative Law Shop

I officially launched  The Creative Law Shop at the end of 2017. Since then, many friends, clients, customers and peers have asked me “What is the “Shop”; “Why did you start it” “weren’t you complaining about being too busy already?” And because the answer to the latter has been (and continues to be) an affirmative yes, I realized I never fully explained why the Shop was created.

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Creative Liberties You Can Take With Your Contract

I like to think that I can really relate to my clients, and they recognize that. After all, I’m not just a small business lawyer- there’s plenty of those around. I can relate to my clients because I can not only talk the talk, but have walked the walk: I spent 2016 and most of 2017 running a calligraphy business after I’d get home from my job as a full-time litigator at a law firm.

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