Top 5 Business Tips for Developing an Employee Handbook

With the economy still sputtering, your business needs to take advantage of the resources available to them. SCORE (http://www.score.org) offers useful, free resources, business counseling and business tools to small businesses.

One of SCORE’s great resources is its lists of “Top 5 Business Tips.” My pick for this week is SCORE’s 5 Tips for Developing an Employee Handbook- check it out at: http://www.score.org/5_tips_leg_6.html.

We recommend you perform a year-end strategic business review (and update your planning).  For our strategic business planning checklist part 1 & part 2:

http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=55397007-ca6e-4941-a509-88db4be93030

http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=d6ecf8e0-b07c-4a66-9e2a-3db1f2236c55

SCORE is a partner with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and is a national association dedicated to helping small business owners form and grow their businesses. SCORE offers terrific free resources, business counseling and business tools for small businesses.

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For information on how the business lawyers at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC can help your business grow, contact Arieh M. Flemenbaum at 312-236-8110 or by email at Contact Us (http://www.gjlaw.com/contact). Or visit us at our website: http://www.gjlaw.com

Griffith & Jacobson, LLC – We know business – Chicago’s Business Lawyers.

 

Top 5 Business Tips for Teaching Employees to Own their Work

With the economy still sputtering, your business needs to take advantage of the resources available to them. SCORE (http://www.score.org) offers useful, free resources, business counseling and business tools to small businesses.

One of SCORE’s great resources is its lists of “Top 5 Business Tips.” My pick for this week is SCORE’s 5 Tips for Teaching Employees to Own Their Work - check it out at: http://www.score.org/5_tips_l_10.html.

We recommend you perform a year-end strategic business review (and update your planning).  For our strategic business planning checklist part 1 & part 2:

http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=55397007-ca6e-4941-a509-88db4be93030

http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=d6ecf8e0-b07c-4a66-9e2a-3db1f2236c55

SCORE is a partner with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and is a national association dedicated to helping small business owners form and grow their businesses. SCORE offers terrific free resources, business counseling and business tools for small businesses.

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For information on how the business lawyers at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC can help your business grow, contact Arieh M. Flemenbaum at 312-236-8110 or by email at Contact Us (http://www.gjlaw.com/contact). Or visit us at our website: http://www.gjlaw.com

Griffith & Jacobson, LLC – We know business – Chicago’s Business Lawyers.

 

Top 5 Business Tips for Establishing a Presence in Your Community

With the economy still sputtering, your business needs to take advantage of the resources available to them. SCORE (http://www.score.org) offers useful, free resources, business counseling and business tools to small businesses.

One of SCORE’s great resources is its lists of “Top 5 Business Tips.” My pick for this week is SCORE’s 5 Tips for Establishing a Presence in Your Community at: http://www.score.org/5_tips_m_pr_1.html.

SCORE is a partner with the Small Business Administration (SBA) and is a national association dedicated to helping small business owners form and grow their businesses. SCORE offers terrific free resources, business counseling and business tools for small businesses.

We also recommend you perform a year-end strategic business review (and update your personal estate planning).  For our strategic business planning checklist part 1 & part 2:

http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=55397007-ca6e-4941-a509-88db4be93030

http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=d6ecf8e0-b07c-4a66-9e2a-3db1f2236c55

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For information on how the business lawyers at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC can help your business grow, contact Arieh M. Flemenbaum at 312-236-8110 or by email at Contact Us (http://www.gjlaw.com/contact). Or visit us at our website: http://www.gjlaw.com

Griffith & Jacobson, LLC – We know business – Chicago’s Business Lawyers.

Key characteristics of a good business attorney

Below are a few key characteristics of a good attorney that you may use to evaluate whether or not a prospective business attorney may be right for you (in no particular order of relevance or importance):

• Advocate: An attorney needs to be supportive and not just sympathetic to your cause. You do not want a "yes" man. A good attorney is supposed to tell you where you may be wrong. Can the attorney be straight-forward with you?


• Judgment: Are you comfortable with their business judgment? Do they seem to exercise reasonable and sound business judgement? Or are they too theoretical, impractical and/or out-of touch with your business reality well-thought ideas and reasons.


• Availability: Do they have adequate time to take on your matters. Make sure to get a commitment from the attorney.


• Communication - No "Legalese" please: Your attorney must be able to explain to you even the most complex issues into terms you understand. Your attorney is supposed to find solutions for you, not mystify you.


• Foresight/Proactive: Does the attorney think of ways to help you and your business? Do they seem to understand the problems you are likely to have? Do they have a plan to avoid likely problems?


• Professionalism: Are they organized and handle themselves with professionalism? Are they respectful of your time - were they on time?


• Resources: Do they have the resources and connections you may need to support your business? Do they know the players in your industry? Ask about their Affiliations with accountants, financial advisors, bankers, and other professionals. Can you leverage their resources, connections and referrals?

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For more information or if you need a great business attorney in the Chicagoland area, contact Arieh M. Flemenbaum at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC at 312-236-8110 or amf@gjlaw.com.

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Our Law Firm's Business Philosophy

At Griffith & Jacobson, we mean business – your business. Our driving philosophy and our ultimate goal is to provide our clients with efficient, affordable legal solutions for all of your business needs. In order to achieve this goal, we believe it is important to be:

• Proactive – We are "can-do." There are no "legal problems", only obstacles to confront and solutions to find.
• Direct – We help identify your issues, analyze the options available to you and provide you with clear and concise advise.
• Efficient – We address the identified issues and commit only needed resources and persons to resolving them.
• Tenacious – We own your issue until it is resolved or mitigated. An issue is not resolved until you are satisfied it has been fully addressed.
• Diligent – We step into your shoes. An issue can only be fully understood from your viewpoint.
• Responsive – You should never feel you do not know the status of your matter.
• Accountable – Every project will have a deadline and will be completed by that deadline; except as circumstances out of our control change.
• Accessible – We strive to return every telephone message on the day it is received, preferably within two hours, and return all messages within one business day.
• Available – Information flow must flow freely to resolve maters to your satisfaction. We prefer to communicate with you
  (in descending order of preference):
  a. Face to face,
  b. By telephone,
  c. Via email, and then
  d. By letter or fax.
• Affordable – We strive to present practical options and a cost-effective, comprehensive legal resolution of your business issues in a timely manner.

For more information, please contact Arieh M. Flemenbaum at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC at 312-236-8110.

Griffith & Jacobson, LLC – Chicago lawyers who know your business.