Contracts

Eight Big Mistakes to Avoid When Negotiating a Lease for Your Business

Melody Stevens | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Commercial Lease, Small Business, Negotiations, Real Estate, Legal, Contracts, Business Lease, Small Business Lease, Commercial Real Estate, Small Business News

It's no secret to business owners that there are great deals to be had in this tenant-friendly economic climate. However, if you combine inexperience, emotion, and an inflexible landlord, you have a recipe for some disastrous decisions.

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Be Careful How You Sign Documents

Brad Reid | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Representatives, Resolution of Board of Directors, Signature Liability, Corporation, Contracts, Signing Documents, Business News

Considering how well established the signature liability rules are it is surprising that there are still ambiguous situations created by both the writers and signers of documents.

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How Brady, Manning Stack Up Off The Field

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.05.2012

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning gathered impressive stats to guide their teams to Sunday's Supe...

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Princely Gluttony: The 10 Worst Contracts in Baseball

Scott M. Campbell | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Baseball, Worst Contracts, Mlb, Contracts, Deals, Free Agency, Yu Darvish Major League Baseball, Prince Fielder, Albert Pujols, Sports News

After three clubs committed over $575 million to secure the services of Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder and Yu Darvish, baseball's latest spending bonanza appears complete. With baseball's gluttonous underbelly fresh in our minds, it's time to survey the excess.

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Four Ways to Get Out of Your Lease, Part 2

Jim Thomas | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Tenant, Sublease, Assignment, Leases, Landlord, Business, Rent, Business Lease, Contracts, Denver News

Maybe the landlord will agree to take some or all your space back. Maybe the Mayans are right and the world will end on December 21, 2012 this year, so why worry about your lease?

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Four Ways to Get Out of Your Lease: Part 1

Jim Thomas | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Leases, Landlord, Exit Planning, Buyouts, Rent, Business Lease, Renting, Contract Negotiations, Contracts, Denver News

That your business is suffering, or rent is lower across the street, is generally of no concern to your landlord. If your business is viable, any change in your lease has to present some upside to both landlord and lender.

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State of the Union: Small Businesses Can Expect More of Obama's Failed Promises

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.24.2012

President Obama is one of the most anti-small business presidents in U.S. history and his policies have devastated the middle class economy. His policies have forced millions of small businesses to close their doors and millions more people to lose their jobs.

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Morality Is Part of Contract Law

Brad Reid | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Letter of the Law, Mortgages, Corporations, Fairness, Contracts, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

Morality has been a part of contract law for ages in the history of western civilization. At one time it was believed that contracts were made in the ...

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Top 6 Reasons Obama's Economic Policies Failed in 2011

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Census Bureau, Small Business, Economy, Fortune 500, President Obama, Economic Policies, Lloyd Chapman, Asbl, Obama, Campaign, Business, Kauffman Foundation, Contracts, Politics, Tax Cuts, Economic Stimulus, American Small Business League, Small Business America, Business News

Judging by his actions, it seems that Barack Obama is becoming one of the most anti-small business presidents in U.S. history. People need to stop listening to what he says and start watching what he does.

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Obama to Approve a Series of Anti-Small Business Policies That Will Cheat the Middle Class out of Billions

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.22.2012

The Obama administration has quietly adopted a series of anti-small business policies that will cost small businesses and minority-owned small businesses billions of dollars a month.

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The Government Is Trying Everything to Create Jobs Except the Only Thing That Will Work

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.30.2012

For years I've been listening to pundits and politicians talk about job creation in America and I'm constantly stunned and frustrated because no one is talking about the single most fundamental issue related to job creation in America: small businesses.

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The One Sentence Solution To Job Creation

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Small Business, Federal Contract Fraud, Job Creation, Hank Johnson, President Obama, Sba, U.S. Small Business Administration, Congress, Lloyd Chapman, Stimulus, Representative Hank Johnson, American Small Business, Contracts, Economy, Small Business America, Small Business News

The executive order that I am suggesting would create an estimated 1.8 million net new jobs annually. It would require neither new spending nor spending cuts. It wouldn't even require new taxes.

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7 Keys to Indemnification in Business Sales, Part 4 of 3

Jim Thomas | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Warranties, Due Diligence, Caps, Indemnification, Baskets, Third Parties, Exclusivity, Mergers and Acquistions, Representations, Survival, Business Sales, Damages, Contracts, Ebitda, Scope, Denver News

Whether you are buyer or seller, here are seven elements to think about when reading an indemnification provision: scope, damages, survival, exclusivity, caps, baskets, and third parties.

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Obama Jobs Bill Ignores Basic Principle of Job Creation: Small Businesses Create All the Jobs

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 12.27.2011

The federal government is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world. Small businesses need those contracts, not the tax cuts proposed in the president's jobs bill.

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Protection for Victims of Ineffective Representation and Immigration Fraud

Aggie R. Hoffman | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Immigration Fraud, Misrepresentation, Immigration Court, Contracts, Attorney General, Ineffective Representation, Immigration Reform, Latino Voices News

If you have been deceived or suffered injury, take advantage of the law that was enacted for your benefit. Not only will you be helping yourself, but your actions will assist law enforcement to punish and put the offender out of business.

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Keeping Your Hard-Won Purchase Price: Risk Allocation in Business Sales

Jim Thomas | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Sale, Risk Allocation, Indemnification, Business, Transaction, Business Sales, Purchase Price, Contracts, Denver News

Most first-time sellers of a business are shocked to learn that fabulous purchase price they just negotiated is at risk for years, if not forever. Even worse, they could potentially lose it all and more.

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Obama Is Not Trying to Create Jobs; He's Trying to Get Re-elected

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Taxes, Small Business, Tax Dollars, Jobs Bill, Federal Contracts, President Obama, Sba, Jobs, Lloyd Chapman, Asbl, Obama, Contracts, Infrastructure Spending, Small Business Administration, Tax Cuts, Jobs Plan, American Small Business League, Job Creation, Business News

I don't think President Obama is trying to create jobs. His jobs bill is designed to get him re-elected. I think if you looked at the facts you'd agree.

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Kansas City Schools Chief's Departure Involves A Swirl Of Ethical Allegations, Profanity [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Education News, Kansas City Schools, Arne Duncan, School Boards, John Covington Departure, Ss, Contracts, School Closure, Education Achievement System, John Covington, School Turnaround, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, John Covington Resignation, School Construction, Chace Ramey, Education News

The abrupt departure of John Covington from his post as superintendent of Kansas City, Missouri's schools reveals how interpersonal disputes between s...

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Mayor: 'I Had Way Too Much To Drink' Before I Signed Deal

AP | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Politics, I Had Way Too Much to Drink, Martin Resendiz Drunk, Mayor, New Mexico, Sunland Park, Deal, Weird New Mexico, Congressional Candidate, Martin Resendiz, Weird Politics, Contracts, Drunk Mayor, Weird News News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Mexico border town mayor and congressional candidate Martin Resendiz was drunk when he signed nine contracts with a California co...

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Showing, or Is That Showering, the PMC Money

David Isenberg | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Department of Defense, Contracts, Private-Military-Security-Contractors, Business News

As the saying goes, if you really want to know the truth about how things work, follow the money.

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How To Negotiate Vendor Contracts

Scott Gerber | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Small Business America, Negotiations, Small Business, Vendors, Young Entrepreneur Council, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, Contracts, Business News

I am negotiating a long-term deal with one of my vendors. What are some of the terms I should consider and include in exchange for signing this multi-year contract?

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SEC: IBM Bribed China, South Korea For A Decade

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Allegations, Ibm, Tech Industry, South Korea, Computers, Bribery, China, Contracts, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it bribed South Korean and Chinese government officials for m...

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Obama Administration Wants Secret "Blacklist" for Pentagon Contractors

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boeing, Senate, Tech America, Small Business, Blacklist, National Defense Authorization Act, Acquisition Reform Working Group, Asbl, American Small Business League, Contracts, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Business News

Small business advocates have raised concerns a section of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act will be used to threaten and intimidate small businesses that take issue with DoD's small business contracting practices.

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Arnold Fields, Afghanistan Reconstruction Watchdog, BLASTED By Congress

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contractors, Afghanistan, Afghan, Rebuilding, Arnold Fields, Contracts, Inspector General, Tom Coburn, Fraud, Claire McCaskill, Sigar, Chuck Grassley, Ig, Waste, Tommy Vietor, Corruption, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. official charged with combating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan failed Thursday to con...

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A New Idea for President Obama: Do What You Said You Would Do

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lack of Oversight, Congress, Nfib, Small Business, Abuse, Jobs Bill, Asbl, Loopholes, Tax Breaks, Barack Obama, Contracts, US Chamber of Commerce, Fraud, Small Business Administration, Unemployment, Jobless Claims, American Small Business League, Business News

At a town hall discussion on jobs and the economy yesterday, President Barack Obama said he was looking for new ideas to help create jobs and expand e...

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