Posts by sean-fp

A hiring contract should do more than confirm a start date and compensation. For Georgia small businesses, a well-drafted employment agreement may need to address duties, authority, confidentiality, work-product ownership, restrictive covenants where appropriate, and what happens when the relationship ends.

A year-end legal review can help a business fix quiet problems before they turn into next year’s disputes, compliance misses, or transaction obstacles.

The phrase “LLC vs. S-Corp” confuses a lot of Georgia business owners because it sounds like a direct comparison between two equivalent structures. Learn what the options really mean.

SaaS and software licensing agreements often look routine, but the real business risk is usually buried in the contract terms that govern data, renewals, service levels, implementation, intellectual property, and liability.

The federal non-compete story created a lot of noise, but Georgia business owners still need a practical answer.

A Master Services Agreement is a framework contract that governs an ongoing commercial relationship without renegotiating the full contract for each project.

An independent contractor relationship without a written agreement is a legal gray area waiting for a problem. The IRS may look at the same relationship and call it employment.

Outside General Counsel is a service model in which a business retains an attorney on an ongoing basis to serve as its primary business counsel without the cost of a full-time in-house lawyer.

A confidentiality provision that overreaches often gets treated as if it were absent. Georgia enforces reasonable restrictions on the use and disclosure of confidential information but scrutinizes provisions that go further than the legitimate business interest requires.