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Byline: Kevin Oklobzija The deadline is approaching for a new federal filing requirement that primarily impacts all small businesses. The problem: who knew? 'In the conversations I've had, people have [...]

Byline: Special to the RBJ The 2023 budget season makes for a very challenging year for all New Yorkers, but especially those who run businesses and organizations. As I write [...]

MY TAKE Corporations and other business entities must now adhere to the Corporate Transparency Act. As of Jan. 1, the Corporate Transparency Act's beneficial ownership reporting requirements are in effect. [...]

Byline: RYAN DEFFENBAUGH A city law restricting facial-recognition technology and other biometric data collection is taking effect--setting up potential legal headaches if businesses don't act. As of last week, retailers, [...]

The problems faced by business organizations of Baton Rouge due to the new patent law are presented.

TIGR asked 'What is the single most important State law that needs to be created, changed or deleted to help your industry grow?' As some TIGR correspondents reminded as, attitude [...]

Business owners welcomed the six-month suspension of the slow-growth ordinance in Boulder, CO, on Apr. 16, 1996. The ordinance, enacted on Oct. 19, 1995, set up yearly maximum limits on square footage of business construction for five years and required 1.23% maximum growth rate each year for nonresidential construction. Disgruntled business owners such as Fathom Industries and Kryptonics relocated out of Boulder to facilitate growth., Though the slow-growth ordinance is in abeyance, business owners air many complaints. Slow-growth initiatives, parking shortages and red tape. They cramp the style of Boulder business owners and push them [...]

Stuart Arnett fields a lot of questions about the 'L3C' at the end of his company's name. Most people he encounters have never heard of the L3C. Some, he jokes, [...]

If he were the teacher and the Legislature were his students, Robert Nash would have given lawmakers an A grade when it comes to the business-related actions it took in [...]

In recent years, businesses in many states have been given the opportunity to select a new form in which to conduct business called the limited liability company. This form provides the advantage of the personal liability protection of a corporation, while being taxed as a partnership. If most states create the limited liability company and current issues of uncertainty are favorably resolved, the limited liability company should become the most advantageous business form for most small and medium sized businesses.

Companies must start complying in a workable time frame It was an ecology lesson that Paul Billoni won't soon forget, and it came while driving his 7-year-old son to school. [...]

Several corporate officers from Tampa Bay Area share what their companies are doing amid the financial crisis and their opinion on the role which Washington should play in solving the economic turmoil. Barker Rodems & Cook PA's Chris Barker, for example, wants a bipartisan movement in which laws are placed and private enforcement mechanisms are held together to control problems.

Bars, restaurants and other businesses in Oregon that were not covered by the original Smokefree Workplace Law are now included in the state's new law that will take effect on January 1, 2009. Some businesses have gone smoke-free to prepare for the new law. Details on the impact of the law among Oregon businesses are discussed.

The interpretation of federal and state laws on the retention of corporate records by Hawaiian companies is presented. The need for Hawaiian companies to consult their lawyers before destroying or retaining documents is discussed.

The changes in the way the board of directors of Canadian companies are functioning are discussed. These changes are the result of corporate governance revolution in North America after the Enron and WoldCom scandals. The fifth annual governance ranking of Canadian companies vis-a-vis corporate governance is also discussed.

When the 1995 General Assembly quietly empowered an obscure advisory board with unprecedented authority to slow or kill proposed rules, business lobbyists beamed with satisfaction. For decades, state agencies, boards [...]

The City of San Diego's Business Improvement Districts are assessment districts where business owners choose to be assessed a fee by the City to fund predetermined business-related activities and improvements [...]

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is SBW BIRTHSTONE STABLES II LLC. The Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed [...]

Should an owner of a privately held $20 million company with a 40 percent profit margin have many worries? No shareholders to sooth, no board of directors to manage, no [...]

Mayor plans to pursue making District's business laws more like Delaware's, where these four local giants decided to incorporate 'Would you rather look at the Capitol or an ice skating [...]

That was quite a 180 turned in by the NH Senate th'other day. And to think it was all over a bill that, on paper, would have been given as [...]

You don't have to register with the state to do business in New Hampshire, as long as you do it under your own name. But House Bill 1434 would change [...]

Byline: Keith Crain Last week, while all sorts of other stories were swirling around in and around Southeast Michigan, Cobo Center made some significant work rule changes that will be [...]

While Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques have been around a long time, their advocates note that they have never had greater prominence in legal practice as they do today. With court [...]

Businesses have until Wednesday to comply with the state's onerous new provision of the Wage Theft Prevention Act. The measure was a heavy-handed response to violations at a handful of [...]

From Main Street to Wall Street, from board rooms to back rooms, the runaway growth of government regulation is trampling free enterprise and crushing America's entrepreneurial spirit. Increasingly, employers attempting [...]

Byline: Jeremy Smerd and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh Living-wage war heats up over study Supporters of a revised City Council living-wage bill say Bloomberg administration officials timed their release of a [...]

While crowdfunding may be an option for your business, for serious capital-raising a business should approach it with the same diligence and careful thought as all other forms of finance. [...]

North Carolina was one of the first states to create a business court in order to make the court system more responsive to the demands of complex business litigation. The [...]

From Consuelo Hernandez's two shops on San Ysidro Boulevard, things look worse now than they did 27 years ago, when she moved to the neighborhood. 'There's a lot of graffiti [...]

For months, Crain's, other news media, business associations and 'good-government groups have hammered away at telling us all the ways Michigan is broken. The consensus: Michigan just doesn't work anymore [...]

Federal legislation and issues that could impact nonprofits in 2010: Tax measure: The charitable individual retirement plan rollover, which allows donors age 701/2 and older to give up to $100,000 [...]

More than 2,000 Michigan businesses and groups are putting lawmakers and Gov. Jennifer Granholm on notice: They want major spending reforms before they see any tax increases. What business groups [...]

The past year has brought increased uncertainty to the business world, along with a hefty dose of chaos and change. Companies spent the better part of 2016 gearing up for [...]

I'm usually not one to encourage the federal government to get involved with our lives any more than it is already. But it just gets my dander up when I [...]

Michigan's leading business groups aren't singing from the same page - or even out of the same hymnal. The lack of unity will hurt, not help, efforts to get rid [...]

Businesses are calling on lawmakers to hang up on a proposal that would add a $1.35-a-month fee on all phones. They say House Bill 4852 would have a broad impact [...]

The dust may be settling on Michigan's newly minted business tax, but activity - and debate - is by no means over. As the new Michigan Business Tax heads to [...]

Intellectual-property law in Detroit and across the country continues to be a growth industry as business and industry puts more emphasis on protecting the fruits of its brain power. The [...]

Local governments are trying once again to win an increase in state revenue-sharing, after a proposed hike failed to make it into the state's recent budget agreement. House Republicans in [...]

scores of companies are poised to file for bankruptcy over the next three weeks ahead of harsh new rules that will make Chapter 11 cases more difficult and more expensive. [...]

As Detroit readies for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 12, with Super Bowl XL to follow Feb. 5, the Detroit City Council is considering restrictions on how [...]

The first major overhaul of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in 25 years will have a significant impact on business bankruptcy cases, local bankruptcy lawyers say. Most news reports about the [...]