The decisions you make in the beginning, such as choosing an ownership structure, will impact your business throughout its life cycle. Getting the right start is critical.
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LAN Party Lawyers: All-In on Loot Boxes
In this inaugural episode of LAN Party Lawyers, Carlton Fields attorneys Steve Blickensderfer and Nick Brown discuss the increasingly popular phenomenon of including loot boxes in digital games. They also examine the growing concerns about loot boxes by regulators around the world and debate whether …
U.S. Immigration Policy and Procedural Changes Impacting Foreign Students (Webinar)
This presentation is a three-part series on the procedural and policy changes issued by the various U.S. agencies governing legal immigration, and the impact of these changes on foreign students in the U.S. with student, scholar or trainee visas such as F, M or J, as well as their spouses and …
Custom Software Development: Practical Strategies to Get What You Pay For (Webinar)
A company’s custom software is an increasingly important part of growing profitability, shrinking expenses, and reaching new markets. It is critical to corporate success or failure. Software deals and licensing models are evolving as quickly as the technology, becoming more complicated and costly. …
Featured Documents
Indemnification Agreements
This sample Manager Indemnification Agreement is made between an LLC and a manager of the LLC. The Agreement provides that the company will indemnify the manager against litigation risks and expenses associated with the manager’s position in the company. The company provides this indemnification …
Employee Invention Assignment Agreement (California)
The Employee Invention Assignment Agreement is an agreement between the company and employee that requires the employee to disclose any inventions to the company, to legally transfer ownership in such inventions to the Company, and to assist the company in obtaining protection on any such …
Articles of Incorporation
Articles of Incorporation (or Certificate of Incorporation) includes the corporation’s name, type of structure (e.g. for-profit, nonprofit, or professional corporation), the registered agent, the number of authorized shares, the effective date, the duration (perpetual by default), and the …