Category: AAC
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Be Original in Choosing a Trademark
“Why can’t I use this name as a trademark? The words in the name are practically generic and there are dozens of trademarks that use them!” I frequently hear those words from clients who want to use words or terms in their trademarks and the words are already in use for similar goods and are…
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![[November 2018 Video] Selling Grandma’s House | Craig Ackerman](https://attorneyactionclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Craig-Ackerman.jpg)
[November 2018 Video] Selling Grandma’s House | Craig Ackerman
https://vimeo.com/303644803 About the Event “Selling Grandma’s House” presented by Craig Ackerman. Craig grew up in New Jersey where he learned to renovate homes, manage tenants and sell residential buildings with his father. Living for 10 years in Singapore and Shanghai, China, on assignment in the commercial real estate industry, Craig returned to the US and…
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Is your revocable trust a ticking time bomb?
Will Your Pre-2011 Trust Create expensive problems for your surviving spouse and children? A revocable trust written before 2011 might contain provisions that would cause the trust’s beneficiaries expensive tax problems. Why? To avoid federal estate tax on the first death, many older trusts have an AB formula with a bypass trust. These made sense…
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Workplace Bullying
Is It Really That Bad? First, let’s look at the data. The Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) tells us that 27% of workers have experienced bullying across industries. There are, of course distinctions to be made when talking about unkindness at work. We all have grumpy days, but if we are generally treating people well, we…
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![[October 2018 Video] The Best Way To Sell Your Law Practice | Donald William Schwartz](https://attorneyactionclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Don-Schwartz.png)
[October 2018 Video] The Best Way To Sell Your Law Practice | Donald William Schwartz
https://vimeo.com/307896937 About the Event “The Best Way To Sell Your Law Practice” presented by Donald William Schwartz. Don Schwartz is a recognized business appraiser, popular speaker and workshop presenter on ways to build long-term sustainable business value in your business and professional practice. The key learning points are: Despite popular thinking, law firms can be…
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WHEN TRUSTEES ARE SURPRISED AND TOO BUSY
This trust property sale had a few unexpected elements. First, the appointed co-trustees didn’t know each other well. And while one of them was especially surprised to be named, oddly, neither was close to the deceased. Without the trustees’ built-in perspective on the property, it required some investigation to find out about this top-floor Cow…
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The Top Four Decision-Making Frameworks For An Equally Owned Company
This article first appeared on Forbes. My law firm helps launch more than fifty legal entities a year. A question I often hear from clients is how a company should make decisions when it is equally owned by the founders. Here are the four most common approaches founders can take: 1. Require unanimous consent. The…
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The Business Appraisal Helps Build Value While Protecting Your Equity and Invested Capital
The business appraisal is one of the most misunderstood documents used in business today. What it is, how it is written, and the many ways it can be used to settle one of the ever-present realities of the marketplace. That reality is that there can be more than one value of the same clearly defined…
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![[September 2018 Video] The Systems and Strategies Behind a Profitable Law Firm | Leo Manzione and Albert Stoll](https://attorneyactionclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Al-and-Leo.png)
[September 2018 Video] The Systems and Strategies Behind a Profitable Law Firm | Leo Manzione and Albert Stoll
https://vimeo.com/308016171/649d88da0e About the Event “The Systems and Strategies Behind a Profitable Law Firm” presented by Albert Stoll and Leo Manzione. In August of 1994, Al founded the law firm now known as Albert G. Stoll, Jr. | A Law Corporation. In his 24 years of plaintiffs law practice, Al has handled more than 40 personal injury…
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Estate Planning Decisions Come From The Heart
I was recently asked to “submit my elevator pitch” in writing for a networking group. This is what I usually say when I introduce myself to a group of professionals: My name is Patricia De Fonte. No one ever wants to start working with me. It is not easy to tell a stranger about strained…