Video Replay Grand Junction Advising Small Companies - Responding to Your Clients' Needs with Practi
February 2013
Advising Small Companies - Responding to Your Client's Needs with Practical Advice
Program Description:
Are you the primary advisor to a small business client?
Small business owners may come to you for guidance and counsel on a wide array of problems.
You need to be able to give thorough, accurate and timely answers to their broad range of questions.
Learn what you need to know about the most common issues that arise for your small business clients—what business entity to choose upon formation of the business, how to negotiate contracts, prevalent employment law concerns, and what intellectual property issues to watch out for.
Agenda:
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am
Welcome and Introduction
Elizabeth C. Lewis, Esq., Program Chair
9:10am
Advising Your Small Business Client on Choice of Entity and Tax Consequences
A Panel Presentation:
Scott Stauffer, Esq., CPA
Steven M. Weiser, Esq., CPA
10:20am
Networking Break
10:30am
Basics of Contract Drafting and Negotiations
- Analysis of common contract provisions
- Strategy in contract drafting
- Negotiating tips
Presented by Colleen Belak, Esq.
11:20am
Negotiating Real Estate Leases
- What are the key areas in commercial real estate leases?
- What are the “norms” in those areas?
- Which provisions of a lease are the landlord most likely to be willing to change?
- Which provisions of a lease are sacrosanct to the landlord?
- How outrageous can a landlord get and still not drive tenants away?
Presented by Joel D. Russman, Esq.
12:10pm
Lunch Break (On Your Own)
1:10pm
Employment Law Considerations
Independent Contractor Analysis, ADA, Facebook and Other Hot Topics
Presented by Michael C. Santo, Esq.
2:00pm
Exit Planning
Planning for Detour, Dissolution, Disability and Death; Business Succession, Estate Planning and Other Issues
Presented by Barb Cashman, Esq.
2:50pm
Networking Break
3:00pm
What Litigators Wish Transactional Attorneys Would Know
- What should a transactional attorney do in setting up a client’s business to minimize the need to call a litigator?
- How can a transactional attorney protect a client before trouble arises?
- How important is the actual language of a contract to a judge?
- How can you avoid litigation once a dispute arises?
- How can you stack the deck in favor of your client before you turn a dispute over to a litigator?
- What really goes on in a courtroom?
Presented by Joel D. Russman, Esq.
3:50pm
Intellectual Property Issues: What You DON’T Know CAN Hurt You! Protecting Your Clients’ Intellectual Property
- How the rules in the digital world have changed for protecting the intellectual property owned by you and your customers
- How you can avoid misuse of IP owned by others
- What are copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents and why do they matter to your business?
- What implications are there for social media and intellectual property – Facebook, Pinterest, etc.?
- Do you really know who owns and controls the rights to what you and your clients create?
- Answers to frequently asked questions
Presented by Laurie Rhoades, Esq.
4:40pm
Adjourn
Program Chair
Elizabeth C. Lewis, Esq.
Law Office of E.C. Lewis, PC
Denver, CO
Faculty
Colleen R. Belak, Esq.
Burns Figa & Will, PC
Greenwood Village, CO
Barb Cashman, Esq.
Law Office of Barb Cashman, LLC
Denver, CO
Laurie Rhoades, Esq.
Replin, Rhoades & Ratner, LLC
Denver, CO
Joel D. Russman, Esq.
Denver, CO
Michael C. Santo, Esq.
Bechtel & Santo, LLP
Grand Junction, CO
Scott W. Stauffer, Esq., CPA
Aurora, CO
Steven M. Weiser, Esq., CPA
Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP
Denver, CO
Location Information
Law Office of Baird B Brown PC
1250 E Sherwood Dr
Grand Junction, CO
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1250 E Sherwood Dr
Grand Junction, CO
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $309.00 |
| CBA | $289.00 |
| CORP | $269.00 |
| Non Member | $199.00 |
| New Lawyer | $199.00 |
| CORP | $99.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 7.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
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