Posts Tagged ‘Barnes & Thornburg LLP’

Make sure your employment policies don’t box you in

I have written here before about how, when your company becomes involved in legal proceedings, you want to be able to tell your company’s story as effectively as possible to neutral third parties who have no background on the dispute and the personalities involved. In employment disputes, one...

May 16th, 2013 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

Protect your business records on the Internet

Most readers of this online column conduct business extensively over the Internet. Customers are contacted, contracts are negotiated, transaction records are stored, and employees are hired, fired and promoted all via electronic communications on the web. Brad Stoll Order histories, credit card numbers,...

April 18th, 2013 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

Discrimination prevention is “just” business

All employers of all sizes should understand two things about employment discrimination. One, the types of discrimination claims only increase. It is a sarcastic refrain of employers that it is easier to say who is not in a protected class, but the reality is that is increasingly closer to the truth....

March 21st, 2013 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

Five Tips to Guide Your Company’s Social Media Practices

We live in a digital age, and companies and employees increasingly communicate with each other −and with the world− through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and countless other social media outlets available to them. A recent study shows that nearly 70 percent of Americans are currently on at least one...

February 21st, 2013 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

Four Things Employers Should Do in 2013

One theme of this column is that liability avoidance usually does not need to be expensive. Employers of all sizes can save themselves money and headaches in the long run by proactive steps to minimize employee-related liability. Bill Nolan To that end, I offer four things on which every employer should...

December 20th, 2012 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

The Dream Team: Managing Litigation Costs

Well, it’s happened. You’re a party in a lawsuit. You’ve either had the unpleasant task of suing somebody else or been sued yourself. It’s part of doing business, and you’re staring down the barrel of a possibly long and expensive process. Catherine Jopling Often the greatest...

November 15th, 2012 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

How to Respond to a Government Inquiry about your Business

No matter the size of your business, at some point you will be called upon to respond to a government investigator of some sort. It might be the federal, state, or local government, and it could involve any number of subjects. It may be a phone call, a visit, or a letter or other document. It could...

October 18th, 2012 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

Simple approach may help with business’s electronic information

There may be no area where businesses are more behind the curve than in managing their electronic information to keep them out of trouble. That is not a criticism of businesses. The area has changed, and continues to change, so incredibly fast (at least if you grew up before the 1990s), it is almost...

September 20th, 2012 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More