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
Purchaser Representative Questionnaire
The Purchaser Representative Questionnaire is for use by a company when a proposed purchaser indicates on its Investor Questionnaire that a purchaser representative is involved. This questionnaire helps collect and verify information relating to the purchaser representative(s) of potential …
Employee Offer Letter
The employee offer letter sets out certain details and conditions of employment with the company. It states the date employment will begin, compensation, job responsibilities and duties, and conditions, including “at will” employment terminable at any time, and the condition that the employee must …
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 …