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Articles
CorpLaw’s lawyers have written these articles which may help you anticipate and prevent legal problems. Please contact us if we can help answer any business legal questions for you.
Best Practices in Trademark Usage
By Charles B. Brown
These Important Tips will help increase the strength of your trademark.
Read the Best Practices in Trademark Usage article.
Benefits of Registering Your Trademark
By Charles B. Brown
A quick review of the primary benefits of registering your valuable trademark with the United States Trademark Office.
Letter to Client Explaining Trademark Registration Benefits
Protecting Your Trade Secrets; Lessons from Wiki-Leaks
By Charles B. Brown
If the U.S. government cannot protect against unauthorized disclosure of its secrets by Wiki-Leaks, what can you do to protect your legal rights to your valuable Trade Secrets? Read Protect Your Trade Secrets
23 Best Practices for Corporate Legal Services
By Charles B. Brown
A comprehensive listing of the 23 Best Practices for lawyers providing legal services to business clients.
23 Best Practices for Corporate Legal Services Article
Benefits of a Legal Audit
By Charles B. Brown
Legal audits are excellent preventive tools to improve legal processes and legal compliance. Every company has hidden legal problems; statistics prove that if companies can uncover and resolve these hidden legal problems, they will prevent significant losses and improve their profitability.
Benefits of a Company-Wide Audit Article
How Companies Lose Their Corporate Shield (Piercing the Corporate Veil)
By Charles B. Brown
As the owner of a business, you need to incorporate to shield your personal assets from the creditors of your business. During the life of the company, the company must follow certain legal rules or you as the owner could become liable for the debts of the company. This article will show business owners how to protect their personal assets.
How Companies Lose Their Corporate Shield Article
Assessing the Tricky Status of Your “Independent Contractors” – Rules you Should Know
By Charles B. Brown
Independent Contractors are an everyday resource for many companies in the U.S. There are complicated guidelines employers should follow to ensure that a variety of problems does not befall you. This article discusses, in-depth, the Do’s and Don’ts of working with Independent Contractors.
Do’s and Don’ts of Working with Independent Contractors Article
Litigation Management – Optimizing Your Litigation Results
By Charles B. Brown
There are several strategies that companies and their in-house counsel can employ to make litigation manageable and successful. Taking the simple steps in this article can reduce the cost of litigation, improve results, control outside counsel, and achieve success in litigation.
Litigation Management Article
The On-Site Legal Method
By Charles B. Brown
A new trend in the private practice of law is the innovative creation of the On-Site Legal Method. Here, attorneys act like a company’s in-house Law Department, but they are independent contractors. They perform the same services as a traditional outside counsel, but provide greater value.
The On-Site Legal Method Article
The Law Department Method for Private Practitioners
By Charles B. Brown
How In-House Counsel’s best practices can be used by private practitioners.
The Law Department Method for Private Practitioners
Best Practices for Corporate Legal Services
By Charles B. Brown
Corporations have needs which are different from non-business clients’ needs. Best Practices for Corporate Legal Services are a set of philosophical and legal practice guidelines, some drawn from other service businesses, such as management consulting, which will help optimize your business client’s results.
Best Practices for Corporate Legal Services Article
Corporate Directors Beware: Amendments to the Criminal Code of 1961
By Anthony E. Cascino, Jr.
Anthony E. Cascino, Jr., breaks down new amendments in the Illinois Criminal Code that outlaw corporate fraud. The new amendments make illegal various types of fraudulent activity and allow prosecutors to seek significant fines for their violation. Corporate attorneys should not advise their clients without knowing of these amendments first.
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Web Site Designing: Is Anyone Watching
By Henry N. Meier, Jr.
Henry N. Meier, Jr., examines the way the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates website content. The FTC can regulate website content via its traditional jurisdiction through the United States Attorney General. In the article, Mr. Meier provides the URL to the FTC’s Dot Com Disclosures which outline new and old law regarding deceptive advertising on websites.
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HIPPA and Business Associates Agreements
By Henry N. Meier, Jr.
Henry N. Meier, Jr., covers the fundamental requirements of HIPPA business associate agreements. He examines their impact on HIPPA and provides useful information on the substance of the requirements and sets out their enforcement.
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CAN-SPAM Act of 2003: Will Act Can or Uncan SPAM?
By Henry N. Meier, Jr.
Henry N. Meier, Jr., outlines the essentials of the recent anti-spam law. The new law makes sending unsolicited e-mails illegal. The measure outlaws the use of computers to send spam, deceptive e-mail headers, and concealment of the sender identity. Violators may face fines, mandatory jail time, or both.
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Internet Cookies, Web Bugs, and Spyware
By Henry N. Meier, Jr.
Henry N. Meier, Jr., explores the problems, tracks the state of the law, and proposes some solutions to clandestine internet snooping. A subversion of privacy, several types of technologies are often implanted on your computer to track
internet usage.
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By Scott Daniels Scott Daniels of Windan® Consulting discusses the benefits of the usage of wind energy plants to our economy and the role it can play in America’s future.
CorpLaw Associates LLC and Its Attorneys in the News
Charles B. Brown talks with In-House Counsel Online to discuss CorpLaw and the Law Department Method
Charles B. Brown discusses the benefits of In-House Counsel and how it can work for businesses using the Law Department Method. CorpLaw is one of a few firms highlighted in this descriptive article on the topic of in-house counsel.
“Outside” In-House Counsel Article
CorpLaw’s Legal Method and Services discussed by San Francisco Business Times writer Eric Young
CorpLaw Associates is discussed, among other similar nationwide firms, in regards to its in-house counsel services to businesses of all sizes. This article is available online at the San Francisco Business Times website.
Lawyers Just as Needed Article
Corporate Counsel Magazine article highlights CorpLaw
We are excited to have been recognized as an innovative industry leader by Law.com’s online Corporate Counsel Magazine. CorpLaw Associates LLC is in the spotlight as one of three of a “unique breed of law firms.” The article also highlights the benefits and role that an on-site attorney can provide to clients. Charles B. Brown shares his insight as the founder of CorpLaw.
Charles B. Brown Introduces Inside-Outside Counsel Seminar
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Charles B. Brown Elected as President of the ACC Chicago Chapter
Charlie was elected by the board of directors of the Chicago Chapter of the ACC, America’s third-largest chapter of the ACC, based in Washington, DC. The ACC is the world’s largest legal bar association serving who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations around the globe. The ACC boasts membership of over 25,000 attorneys. His duties will be to guide and supervise all activities of the chapter. He will serve for the year 2002-2003.
Charles B. Brown Chosen as Kenilworth United Fund President
The Kenilworth United Fund is a civic organization founded to benefit area residents. The Fund raises money for such causes as the North Shore Senior Center, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Glenkirk Center, and many other important non-profit agencies.
Charles B. Brown to Serve on the ACC Chicago Editorial Advisory Panel
Charles Brown will be serving on the ACC Chicago Editorial Panel for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer.
Charles B. Brown Elected to Serve as Corporate Law Departments Committee Chairperson
Charles Brown was nominated to serve a second consecutive term as head of the Chicago Bar Association Committee Chairperson for the Corporate Law Departments Committee. The Committee provides informational programming and other support to lawyers in corporate Legal Departments. Founded in 1874, The Chicago Bar Association is one of the oldest and most active metropolitan bar associations in the United States. The Association’s voluntary membership of 22,000 consists largely of lawyers and judges from Cook County and the State of Illinois.
CorpLaw Press Releases
Henry N. Meier, Jr., Joins CorpLaw Associates LLC
CorpLaw is proud to welcome Henry N. Meier, Jr., as Of Counsel. While he has over 20 years of experience in intellectual property, corporate transactional, and e-commerce law, he remains on the cutting edge of information technology law with recent scholarship and forward-looking practice.
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Brochures
General Brochure
Here is the Firm’s General Brochure containing more detailed information on our firm. Find out how the experience of CorpLaw’s attorneys can be beneficial to your company.
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On-Site Brochure
If you are interested in our on-site services, please download the On-Site Brochure. You will find information here on how CorpLaw can serve you better with our unique on-site model.
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