Behind every great food business is an even greater team! In part I of our legal series for food businesses, join us and attorney C. Edward Langhammer Jr. of Cozen O’Conner LLP as we discuss how California-based culinary creatives can navigate various employment law requirements, including important workplace safety regulations. If you're a California-based food business, tune in and learn what you need so that you can get back to focusing on doing your best work in the kitchen!

Join SSTB, Centro & Cleary Gottlieb for a workshop that will teach participants about the basics of contracting for their business. The discussion will cover the following topics and more: how to negotiate and enter into contracts; a review of common legal provisions, including noncompete and non-disclosure clauses; the responsibilities, roles, and obligations of each of the parties; suggestions for successful management of contracts; and contract breach and enforcement.

Please join LIIF and Start Small Think Big for a webinar with attorneys from Goodwin Procter, who will discuss the legal basics of hiring employees and drafting and negotiating enrollment contracts. The presentation will cover the key terms in enrollment contracts including policies around deposits, tuition and waiver, as well as best practices for record-keeping to protect the provider in the event a contract dispute arises. Presenters will also discuss wage and hour requirements, best practices for onboarding new employees, and health and safety considerations.

Join us this month for a two part webinar series that will provide you with a greater understanding of best practices while doing business online. In Part I, we will cover everything you need to know about your website's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies, how to avoid infringing other people's intellectual property on your website, and an overview of social media's intersection with business and law.

In Part II of this series, we will delve deeper into emerging issues for those folks wanting to learn even more about running an online business, including the risks of using AI and the importance of protecting your clients' information.

This webinar will walk through sales tax considerations for businesses selling in and out of their state, and help you determine whether your sales are taxable or not, and how to proceed with following sales tax law.

Join us for a virtual webinar about navigating the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as a small business, produced by attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP in conjunction with the Lawyers for Civil Rights. In the session, we will go over whether the CTA applies to your business as well as how to comply with the CTA and remain in compliance in the future. This event will be part of a regular series of workshops centered on helping small businesses navigate the CTA. There will be a time for Q&A during the event.

Real Estate Presentation (with Fried Frank)

In this webinar we will provide an overview of U.S. intellectual property (IP) and other proprietary rights, and explain how such rights are created, owned, protected, licensed, and used. We will then devote most of the presentation on YOUR use of others' IP -- how and under what circumstances small businesses can use third-party content, brands, logos, and other materials in connection with their business activities with the ultimate goal of helping you avoid receiving a dreaded (and potentially expensive!) cease and desist letter.

In observance of Black History Month, join Start Small Think Big and the law firm Morrison and Foerster for a presentation about the importance of access to capital, with a focus on black-owned small businesses. This presentation will teach entrepreneurs about the types of capital that may be available to them and highlight the common risks involved in accessing capital, ways to mitigate them in addition to the legal protections entrepreneurs will have throughout the process.