Business Law

Learn the basics of Business Law through Nina Kaufman’s How to Legally Protect Your Assets class. All Things Legal: business law basics for a legally healthy company.

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~~Regularly $79~~ Now $49

Business Law Basics is a good resource for entrepreneurs who want to start their companies and avoid the legal minefields that await them. The Business Law Basics class will delve into business formation, setting expectations (and agreements) with business partners, employees, clients, and vendors, and ways to protect (and lose) your intellectual property. The Instructor will also reveal efficient and cost-effective ways for you to choose and use the attorneys who will become vital members of your advisory team.

Form-Fitting: the right form of business entity
The perks and pitfalls of partnership
Nasty surprises that lurk in an office lease
Identifying your intellectual property
Preventing disclosure/are NDAs worth it?

How to hire employees safely
Why so many entrepreneurs “outsource”
Doing business on a handshake (not!)
How to choose and use attorneys
Business Law and ethical excellence

CLASS CONTENT FORMAT and SCREEN SHOTS (Click Graphics to Enlarge)

Classes utilize two hours of “accelerated” instructor audio content with twenty pages of class lessons. All classes include downloadable “Action Guides” with step-by-step action items applicable to all businesses. Students gain access to a Question and Answer reference page where they can submit questions and review answers to class content. Sound card and Flash player required.

Pre/Post Survey	Audio Lesson	Action Guide	Instructor Q & A

1) An overview of critical legal issues and terms you’ll face in starting a business.

2) Business Law knowledge that will help you protect your personal and business assets.

3) Business Law guidance tips to make smart decisions that save money in unnecessary attorneys’ fees.

Two hours of laser specific step-by-step content delivered to you through our exclusive audio lessons.
Over twenty pages of “accelerated” class content lessons.
Class Checklist: keeps you focused on your objectives so you can systematically reach your goals.
Class Action Guide: provides you with action items that get you working on your business during class!
Access to Question and Answer website: submit questions and review answers to class content.
A full 60 days of access to Class Content (See F.A.Q. for details)

Students can APPLY THESE EXPERT LESSONS in under 20 hours of due diligence on their own business to fulfill the action items of this Class.

~~Regularly $79~~ Now $49

NINA L. KAUFMAN, Esq.

Nina L. Kaufman, Esq.¸ owner of Ask The Business Lawyer, is an award-winning business attorney, author, and speaker. Through both her NYC-based law practice, and her legal information company, The Legal Edge LLC, she has spent nearly 15 years successfully navigating thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses through the legal issues that they face in starting and running their own companies. She also applies her talents and passion to lawyers seeking to transform their practices.

With skills honed on the stand-up comedy stage, Nina is a sought-after professional speaker and has given seminars, workshops, teleclasses, and presentations for numerous organizations in the New York area on subjects ranging from business partnerships and collaborative alliances to client/customer relations, to doing business on the Internet. She has been a featured panelist on the subject of legal issues in social media at the BlogHer for Business and Women’s Congress annual conferences. She has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, PINK magazine, SmallBusinessComputing.com, The New York Law Journal, the American Bar Association Journal, and Entrepreneur magazine and has appeared on Fox Channel 5's Good Day NY program.

A prolific writer, she is a regular columnist for Entrepreneur magazine, where she authors the Business Law Advisor column and Making It Legal blog, in addition to her own blog, BusinessPartnershipCentral.com and weekly ezine, Lex Appeal. She has also contributed articles on a wide range of small business legal topics to publications and media outlets including Enterprising Woman, WomenandBiz.com, the American Bar Association’s GP/Solo Magazine, the New York Enterprise Report, DivineCaroline, MyVenturePad, and findingwhatmatters (fwm).

Nina received her Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College (cum laude), her Master’s degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and her law degree from Boston University School of Law. In addition to her interests in international travel, golf and photography, she is an active member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City, where she has volunteered at their homeless shelter for more than 10 years.