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.

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

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Have a great Thanksgiving!

We hope you enjoy the holiday and get stuffed!

Happy Thanksgiving,

from all of us at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC

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Happy Halloween from Griffith & Jacobson, LLC

May all your candy be sweet and your dreams be spooky!

Happy Halloween!

From the Chicago business law firm of Griffith & Jacobson!

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EEOC Issues New Employer Best Practices for Dealing with Caregivers

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EEOC issued new best practices for employers of workers with care giving responsibilities (and help businesses reduce the possibility of being found to discriminate against workers with care giving responsibilities).

With a dramatic increase in the number of workers who have the additional responsibility of being the primary caregiver for their children, aging parents and/or relatives with a disability, the EEOC felt it was necessary to provide some guidance to employers to encourage the adoption of more flexible workplace policies that help employees achieve a satisfactory work-life balance.

The EEOC's best practices supplement the guidance issued by the EEOC in 2007 and provides specific suggestions for best practices that employers may adopt to reduce the chance of a violation of the various federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. You may read the best practice at the EEOC website at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/caregiver-best-practices.html.

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Contact your business attorney and accountant or contact Arieh M. Flemenbaum at Griffith & Jacobson, LLC (amf@gjlaw.com or 312-236-8110) for more information.