Will Your Business Survive the Inevitable Audit? This Workshop took place on Friday, April 5, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 6, 2019 from 1:30 p.m. till 3:00 p.m. LOCATION: Greenwood Village City Hall, 6060 S. Quebec Street, GWV, CO 80111 Using Independent Contractors In Your Business: Can you answer these [...]
People enjoy playing games, and some retailers incorporate this into the way they do business. From loyalty cards with potential discounts to the McDonalds’ Monopoly game, these things can potentially increase sales and customer loyalty. Before taking advantage of people’s love of games, business owners should ensure their games will be legal. This workshop [...]
Using Independent Contractors Instead of Employees Misinformation about using independent contractors is rampant in Colorado’s business community. A business can run into trouble when it structures its workforce without understanding Colorado and federal laws on independent contractors and employees. Federal and state agencies audit businesses to determine whether their independent contractors must be reclassified [...]
OFFBOARDING: How to Make a Clean Break with an Employee To the business owner, letting someone go is a business decision. To the employee, termination means an abrupt loss of their livelihood and often injury to their pride. A worker who faces the loss of pay without immediate options for reemployment has a strong [...]
If you own a business, you probably have heard about the "corporate veil" and perhaps wondered what it is. In Colorado, a corporation is formed when its organizers file articles of incorporation with the Colorado Secretary of State's office; to create a limited liability company, the organizers file articles of organization. When this happens, a [...]
I have noticed a proliferation in card and game stores in Colorado since 2010. A lot of this growth is on the back of very lucrative games like "Magic: The Gathering," that encourage customers to enter tournaments hosted by card and game stores that award prizes in the form of cash or products to tournament [...]
Taken very broadly, American civil law deals with how we sort out disputes between private people (or organizations) that do not involve a crime. Where they did not have a chance to meet and discuss their obligations and rights among each other beforehand, such as in a car accident between strangers, the case tends to [...]
A sales rep from Littleton, Colorado called me recently to help him collect an override bonus he was entitled to for training a new colleague. The expected bonus was sizeable, but unpaid, and he wanted to sue. His problem was that the bonus arrangement was an oral agreement that had never been reduced to writing [...]
I get a lot of calls from people who are owed money, but the person who owes won't pay up. Most of the time they need to collect a payment from a customer, but sometimes they want to collect a promised bonus or get a loan repaid. They call a lawyer after they asked for [...]
