Category: Legal

April 12, 2021

The bleeding edge of the legal industry is now building interfaces at the intersection of code and law through computational contracts. These computational contracts (sometime called smart contracts), according to Stanford University, are a universal Contract Definition Language that will allow terms and conditions […]

March 18, 2021

Just last month our very own Barbara Weltman wrote an article about tax extension myths. We don’t know if the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service read it, but they just announced the extension of the tax filing and payment […]

March 12, 2021

Tax time is always complicated for freelancers and business owners, but this year, it’s especially swampy. Pandemic relief programs that helped small companies and self-employed individuals created new tax challenges. And many people had unusually jumbled patchworks of jobs and […]

March 5, 2021

When people think about creating a will, they often envision a formal event involving the testator, a lawyer, witnesses, and maybe a notary. However, a handwritten will without witness signatures can be a valid will under some circumstances. Why a […]

March 3, 2021

Anxiety is difficult enough to deal with on its own. When you add in managing a heavy workload or interviewing for a new job, it can become debilitating. Working With Anxiety 101 You cannot be fired for having severe or […]

February 26, 2021

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden put in place new rules for the Paycheck Protection Program that gives exclusive access to these PPP loans to the smallest of small businesses in America. Starting on Wednesday, companies with less than 20 […]

February 24, 2021

I’ve owned and managed businesses for over a decade and been around business owners for even longer than that. Some businesses drown in paperwork while others exist with a debit card and a wallet full of cash. One business can […]

February 4, 2021

The effects of the pandemic have been devastating for thousands of companies across the country, but alongside their financial problems there have been various legal complications. One of them was the increase in requests for bankruptcies or possible bankruptcies, given […]

January 6, 2021

U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI said a major hack of the federal government and some corporations was likely undertaken by Russia — contradicting President Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest China might be responsible — and “will require a sustained […]

December 17, 2020

Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, accusing it of working with Facebook in an unlawful manner that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising business. The states asked that the Alphabet-owned company, which controls a […]