Happy Holidays!

Wishing you and yours the very best!  We hope you get to enjoy the holidays with family and friends.

Happy Holidays,

from all of us at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC

Griffith & Jacobson, LLC - Chicago's Business Lawyers.

Year-end Business Check-up No. 12:

To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year. This tip is part of our ongoing series.

Business Check-up No. 12:

Assess your health/life/disability programs offered & determine if employee benefits and employer contributions are reasonable (and/or at least on par with the industry standards).

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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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).

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

 

Year-End Business Check-Up Tip No. 5

To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year. This tip is part of our ongoing series.

Business Check-up No. 5:

Review employee duties & lines of authority. Train employees on marketing & cross-selling your products and services.

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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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).

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

 

Year-End Business Check-Up Tip No. 4

To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year. This tip is part of our ongoing series.

Business Check-up No. 4:

Be sure your employee files are in compliance with state laws. Ensure your employee posters/notices are up to date.

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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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).

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

 

Year-End Business Check-Up Tip No. 3

To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year. This tip is part of our ongoing series.

Business Check-up No. 3:

Review employment policies & procedures. Update them to cover mobile and social media usage & data protection.

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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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).

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

 

Year-end Business Check-up Tip No. 2

To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year. This tip is part of our ongoing series.

Business Check-up No. 2:

Review contracts & forms. Address key provisions (i.e., dispute resolution, venue, warranties, liability limits).

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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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).

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

 

Year-End Business Check-Up Tip No.1

To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year. This tip is part of our ongoing series.

Business checkup no.1:

Assess corporate governance & comply w/ statutory & formality requirements or lose protection of limited liability.

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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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).

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

 

It's Time for a Year-End Business Check-up

Our Strategic Business Checkup & Strategic Year-end Planning series is back!

We recommend you perform a year-end strategic business review (and update your personal estate planning). To help you complete a check-up and strategic year-end planning for your business, we will publish helpful tips and ideas through the end of the year.

Check for updates every week day through December 31st.

Happy Holidays from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC!

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For more information about recommendations for a year-end business check-up and our strategic business planning checklist part 1 & part 2 - go to:

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

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).

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

Legal Guides & Answers to Business Issues

Chicago Business bLAWg contributor and attorney with the law firm of Griffith & Jacobson, LLC, Arieh M. Flemenbaum, has several legal guides and has answered several questions from business owners on http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/60603-il-arieh-flemenbaum-1102412.html:

Arieh's legal Guides on Avvo.com:
Read my legal guides at Avvo.com/

Arieh M. Flemenbaum has also answered many questions and issues posed by business owners.  Below is a link to the questions and Arieh's answers:

Get my answers to legal questions at Avvo.com

Arieh Mordechai Flemenbaum

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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.

Griffith & Jacobson, LLC - We know your business.

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.