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What Is The Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law?

By setting standards, regulating discharges, and enforcing compliance, this landmark legislation has significantly improved water quality and ecosystem health.

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9 Ways A Technology Lawyer Can Help Your Startup

From the initial stages of app development to handling legal aspects like intellectual property protection, contracts, and compliance, a lawyer plays a crucial role in guiding the entrepreneur through the process.

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What Is A Fictitious Name Registration In Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania’s Fictitious Names Act (FNA) requires any business operating in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to register all fictitious names with the Department of State.

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How Do I Fund A New Business In Pennsylvania?

As an entrepreneur, you have five ways to fund your business, each of which have different advantages and disadvantages.

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What Is A Stock Certificate?

In recent years, many corporations have changed how they tabulate ownership shares by maintaining a registry or ledger, eschewing the once-dominant practice of issuing physical certificates.

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What’s Due Diligence?

Depending on the nature of the business, you may want to divert extra attention to specific areas: retail companies may require a closer look at inventory and accounting practices; software companies may need an in-depth review of intellectual property; manufacturing businesses may require you to review quality control reports.

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What’s EBITDA And Why Is It Important?

Keep in mind that EBITDA is not perfect. It is not recognized under generally-accepted accounting principles, so don’t expect you won’t need to know any other number about your business.

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Protect Yourself As a Business Owner

If you do not take the adequate steps to bifurcate the operations and finances of you and your business assets, an adversary may attempt to “pierce the corporate veil” as we say in business law. This means they argue that your business is a sham; that it’s been you all along.

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How To Hire Independent Contractors

One critical factor for determining whether someone is an IC is a contract provision that states the IC has sole discretion to make decisions about how the work as performed.

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Legal Documents For Dummies: Technology Edition

We have worked with individuals in the software space, including front-end developers, back-end developers, DevOps firms, IT providers, production support, business analysts, product owners, and scrum masters. We believe there are common concepts that all of these professionals must understand–especially you, the entrepreneur.