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Are you choosing the right entity structure to meet your future business needs?

Proper entity formation can have a significant impact on subsequent business issues such as tax rates, corporate governance, and business growth. Although choosing the proper entity structure may seem like a formality to starting and growing your business, it is imperative to the future success, ease, and efficiency of future growth to pick the right entity structure at the formation stage.

Are you choosing the right entity structure to meet your future business needs?

Proper entity formation can have a significant impact on subsequent business issues such as tax rates, corporate governance, and business growth. Although choosing the proper entity structure may seem like a formality to starting and growing your business, it is imperative to the future success, ease, and efficiency of future…

The value of culture

In this issue of CGC In Sight, a publication of the ABA Business Law Section Corporate Governance Committee, the editorial coauthored by Jayne Juvan focuses on the value of culture, particularly in light of the current wave of high profile scandals at public and private companies in 2017.

This piece…

The value of culture

In this issue of CGC In Sight, a publication of the ABA Business Law Section Corporate Governance Committee, the editorial coauthored by Jayne Juvan focuses on the value of culture, particularly in light of the current wave of high profile scandals at public and private companies in 2017.

This piece…

What’s in a name?

From the perspective of most business people, many (if not most) attorneys tend to speak in legalese, i.e., the formal and technical language of law that is often hard to understand. What business people want, though, is for their attorneys to speak lingua negoti (ling-gwuh ni-gō-tē) or "the language of business." Speaking the language of business, however, means more than having a common vernacular. It also encompasses understanding how business people approach and solve problems.

What’s in a name?

From the perspective of most business people, many (if not most) attorneys tend to speak in legalese, i.e., the formal and technical language of law that is often hard to understand. What business people want, though, is for their attorneys to speak lingua negoti…