BTC Organization Development Series: Upgrade and Stabilize Your Legal Foundation Before the Vaccine

***UPDATE: New Date - March 9***

It looks like a vaccine is coming in 2021. Now’s the time to work on your business and improve your and its legal foundation.

The topics we will cover include:

§ Form a legal entity to protect your personal assets and how this works.

§ Purchase the right insurance for your business.

§ Review insurance policies – Do you have the insurance coverage you think you have?

§ Create/review Operating Agreements and Shareholder Agreements between co-owners.

§ Create/review client and customer contracts with an eye towards the next pandemic.

§ Negotiate with your landlord. What seems to be attainable.

§ Understand and guard against the independent contractor vs. employee status risks.

§ Understand the new overtime exempt employee rules.

§ Review employment agreements and policies to meet new non-competition statute.

§ Why you should have your bookkeeper take a two week vacation.

About the presenter: Mark D. Walters is a Bellevue, Washington, business lawyer and a litigator with REED PRUETT WALTERS LARSEN PLLC. Mark provides legal support to businesses in the Pacific Northwest, and he served on the Advisory Board for a Seattle based, national advertising agency, and a local food company, where he provided guidance related to contracts, intellectual property, employment law and general business risk management. A frequent public speaker, Mark is also a guest business law lecturer at Northwest University and the Hot100 Business Association.

Mark works with owners and executives of privately held businesses with a wide range of legal matters, including employment law, contracts, buying and selling businesses, intellectual property, general risk management and dispute avoidance and dispute resolution.