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Recent Legal Issues Articles

A New Way to Cut Legal Bills

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1995

A quick look at a legal service that allows start-ups and other small companies discounted rates.  Read more

Still the Land of Opportunity

By George Gendron |  Oct 1, 1995

Inc's Editor-in-Chief offers some thoughts from an entrenpreneur on the opportunities in the United States.  Read more

Benchmark: Local-Tax Burdens Moderate

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Oct 1, 1995

Some results from a Cooopers Lybrand survey of small businesses concerning coporate state and local taxes.  Read more

Congress Versus the Bureaucrats

By Jerry Jasinowski |  Sep 1, 1995

The president of the National Assoc. of Manufacturers explains changes he sees underway in Washington, D.C.  Read more

Diversity: More Than Just Affirmative Action

By Donna Fenn |  Jul 1, 1995

A look at a CEO who learned his company's affirmative action program was inadequate, and how he corrected it.  Read more

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

By Donna Fenn |  Mar 1, 1995

Book that gives employers the facts about managing employees and the law.  Read more

Mini Good Form: How the Right Kind of Bill Can Control Your Legal Costs

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A lawyer analyzes a legal bill, pointing out specific areas that legal customers should watch for overbilling.  Read more

A Bad Investment

By Timothy Bates |  Jan 1, 1995

A professor of labor and urban studies explains why empowerment zones are doomed, and offers a better plan.  Read more

Setting Up an AIDS Policy

Jan 1, 1995

The best time to write a company policy for employees with AIDS is before someone comes forward with the news that he or she is HIV-positive. After manage...  Read more

Inside Memo on Insider Info

Jan 1, 1995

When small companies go public, they often find themselves unprepared for the enormousfinancial and legal risks they face from complex Securities and Exch...  Read more

Writing Off Temptation

By Rogers, Martha, Kasanoff, Bruce |  Jan 1, 1995

Without becoming paranoid about your own employees and their relations with customers, it's still important to think aboutwhat protections you have in pla...  Read more

Libation Liability

Jan 1, 1995

Lawyers advise companies to set clear policies about drinking on site.  Read more

Alphabet Soup

By Heather E. Stone |  Nov 1, 1994

A manufacturer tells what it took to move her product from invention to production and international distribution.  Read more

Regulation: 'Activist' Labor Department

By Michael P. Cronin |  Nov 1, 1994

A quick explanation of why Joseph E. Kalet's book 'Primer on FLSA Other Wage and Hour Laws' is an important resource.  Read more

Taxes: Know the Rules for Storing Computer Records

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1994

An accounting firm partner briefly discusses the IRS's guidelines for retaining electronic records.  Read more

Workplace Violence: Defusing Dangerous Employees

By Michael P. Cronin |  Oct 1, 1994

A lawyer presents guidelines to balance federal requirements with employee protection to avoid lawsuits.  Read more

Hiring: Try Taping Those Interviews

By Michael P. Cronin |  Sep 1, 1994

Two personnel experts share tips on making audio recordings of interviews and what to watch out for when taping.  Read more

Cost Control: Cut Property Tax

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Sep 1, 1994

A property-tax expert explains that almost every company is overassessed for its personal property and how to lower it.  Read more

When Big Changes Happen to Small Companies

By Bela L. Musits |  Aug 1, 1994

Imagine your entire company being put into an upheaval by a change in your industry's regulatory environment.  Read more

A Better-Looking S Corp.

By Sam Starr |  Aug 1, 1994

Pending legislation would put S corporations on a more equal footing with C corporations.  Read more

How to Comply with the ADA

By Michael P. Cronin |  Aug 1, 1994

The Americans with Disabilities Act now applies to companies with only 15 or more employees.  Read more

Dingdong! OSHA Calling

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jul 1, 1994

How to handle OSHA inspections properly.  Read more

Why Us?

By Judy Wicks |  Jun 1, 1994

Restaurant owner writes about why she agrees with President Clinton that businesses should fund the nation's health care  Read more

The Best Little Advocacy Group in America

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  May 1, 1994

NAWBO, with its assertive marketing and effective consensus building, could best represent small business in Washington.  Read more

What Start-ups Don't Need Is Money

By Richard Florida |  Apr 1, 1994

Making the federal government a venture capitalist won't fix America's technology woes, says author.  Read more

News from the Front

By John Rollwagen |  Jan 1, 1994

Four months after a former CEO went to work in the Commerce Dept., he quit. Here's his opinion on Washington now.  Read more

Naturalizing Foreign Workers

By Phaedra Hise |  Jan 1, 1994

The three-step process of backing a foreign-born worker's bid for a green card.  Read more

The Year in Court

By Michael P. Cronin |  Dec 1, 1993

A brief look at 1993 court rulings on disability, firing, sexual harassment, and hiring.  Read more

Breaking Away

By Susan Greco |  Oct 1, 1993

Three defense contractors found success in diversification after the government slashed its spending.  Read more

EPA Pushes Dozing Desktops That Use Less Juice

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jul 1, 1993

Semiconductor vendors are building computers that power down when idle to save electricity and meet EPA goals.  Read more

Milking the Profits

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Jul 1, 1993

How a group of family farmers joined forces to create and market a premium brand of milk.  Read more

Insurer as Prevention Partner

By Phaedra Hise |  Jul 1, 1993

How a company cut insurance premiums in half by controlling the causes of worker injury.  Read more

Keeping the SEC Happier

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1993

Summary of two SEC rules governing financial-reporting and insider-investment activities of public companies.  Read more

The Ultimate Unemployment Benefit

By Alessandra Bianchi |  May 1, 1993

A federally-sponsored program serves as a springboard for unemployed workers who want to start their own businesses.  Read more

He SCORs!

By Leslie Brokaw |  May 1, 1993

A company founder describes the process he went through to file a small-corporate-offering registration to raise money.  Read more