Legal Intel for Entrepreneurs
Who Play to Win.
20 years of litigation. Real cases. Real mistakes. Real lessons. Every article is built to help you spot the legal risks most entrepreneurs never see coming — until it's too late.
You're exposed and you don't even know it.
Defense wins championships.
“Everyone tells me to put an arbitration clause in my contracts — is that actually smart?” A founder asked me this after copying one from a template without knowing what it did. It’s a great question,...
A client owes you a few thousand dollars, they’ve stopped answering, and hiring a lawyer to chase it would cost more than the debt. After 20 years litigating, I can tell you this is one of the most co...
Lawsuits rarely arrive out of nowhere. After 20 years litigating, I can tell you there’s almost always a warning period first — the client who goes cold and hostile, the partner hinting at lawyers, th...
“Should I just send them a demand letter, or is that a waste of time?” A business owner asked me this after a client stopped paying and stopped answering. She assumed a demand letter was either a magi...
You don't need a law degree to run a business, but you do need to understand a handful of contract clauses, because they show up in nearly every agreement you'll ever sign and they quietly control how...
A client service agreement looks fine right up until it's tested. Then the engagement sours, someone threatens to sue, and every weak spot you never noticed becomes the thing the dispute turns on. I'v...
When two businesses end up in front of a judge, the fight is rarely about the whole contract. It comes down to two or three clauses that decide who pays, how much, and where the battle even happens. I...