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Today on anchor.fm, Chris Werner discusses why you should make sure your commercial litigation attorney understands social media. Social media is an incredible source of information relevant to business disputes. The discovery rules in most courts allow you to collect and use information from social media accounts. However, in order to take advantage of this, your litigation attorney needs to understand the platforms. I'm not suggesting that your attorney needs...

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The newly signed Defend Trade Secrets Act, or "DTSA" provides companies with new tools to protect their trade secrets. Most importantly, the DTSA allows companies to pursue their trade secret claims in federal court, recover exemplary damages, and recover attorney's fees. However, in order to take advantage of these new tools, companies need to update all of their non-disclosure agreements and make sure to include the required language and disclosure...

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Today on anchor.fm, Chris Werner talks about the three outside people who should be part of your startup team. Listen to the show then let us know who else you think is essential to your startup team. https://anchor.fm/w/A0A190 Standard Disclaimer: Vidar provides posts in this blog as general information. This is not meant to be specific advice and your business should always talk directly with a lawyer about your individual...

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Standard Disclaimer: Vidar provides posts in this blog as general information. This is not meant to be specific advice and your business should always talk directly with a lawyer about your individual business needs. Check out Chris Werner on anchor.fm talking about business law and litigation issues. New episode every day. Today Chris has some tips for running an unpaid internship program. https://anchor.fm/w/A095D1

Standard Disclaimer: Vidar provides posts in this blog as general information. This is not meant to be specific advice and your business should always talk directly with a lawyer about your individual business needs. With Star Wars: The Force Awakens coming to theaters soon we wanted to take a moment here at Vidar to address one of the oft-contested issues with Star Wars. Yes, we’re setting aside discussions of business...

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Startups and entrepreneurs can't waste time or money if they hope to be successful. They need to find value and exploit it. Usually, they are very good at doing just that. However, I am surprised how often entrepreneurs don't understand the value of a business lawyer. Perhaps it has something to do with the negative perceptions of lawyers (they are too expensive, they provide too much information and not enough advice,...

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