This blog discusses legal issues that every business needs to be aware of. en-us http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272.html?nid=3433 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use November 9, 2009 http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1630013963.html?nid=3433 A handful of states have laws specifically requiring employers to provide sexual harassment training to certain employees, those states are noted b... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/580013658.html?nid=3433 Under the laws of most if not all states, you can sign most contracts via e-mail, if you have the necessary intent to do so. A recent judic... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1250013525.html?nid=3433 As expected, the Department of Homeland Security announced the final adoption of new rules governing employer responses to Social Security Administ... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1230012723.html?nid=3433 Sometimes it is important for employers to know what Congress did do, and sometimes it's important to know what Congress didn't do. Congress adjour... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/170012417.html?nid=3433 In the twenty-first century, the average American family no longer fits the "working dad, mom at home" stereotype portrayed in sitcoms fr... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/700011870.html?nid=3433 You can’t copyright your clothing designs themselves, but you can copyright certain of the design elements of your clothing. The distinction ... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1190011319.html?nid=3433 Perhaps you aren’t doing so deliberately. But if your website collects date of birth information as part of a user registration process or ot... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/330011033.html?nid=3433 This is the kind of question that is likely to greatly annoy you as you struggle with the toil and expenses of keeping your small business going. W... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/360010836.html?nid=3433 Many highly successful businesses begin in a garage or at a kitchen table, with an employee workforce of one or a small, hard-working coterie cla... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/430010443.html?nid=3433 Mixing business with family relationships makes great television drama, as fans of shows from Dallas to The Sopranos can attest, but it often resul... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1900010190.html?nid=3433 A "litigation hold" is a suspension of a company’s document retention/destruction policies for those documents that may be relevant t... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/380010038.html?nid=3433 Today, many professional newsletters are delivered electronically. Because it’s so easy to do, it’s tempting for a company to obt... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1900009790.html?nid=3433 You recall the days of your youth spent helping your Aunt Molly during the summers at her candy store, where you earned a few bucks and all the but... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/390009639.html?nid=3433 The first line of defense for the protection of trade secrets and confidential business information is the adoption and maintenance of a proactive ... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1160009516.html?nid=3433 Confidential business information, or trade secrets, can be vital to a company’s operations. Just look at Coca-Cola—without its l... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1040009304.html?nid=3433 It seems that every week, another government or company laptop containing important information is lost, or another business finds that hackers hav... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1850008985.html?nid=3433 That’s really a trick question. The answer has to be “yes,” because all businesses, no matter how big or small, make use of devic... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1030008903.html?nid=3433 Too much information can be a bad thing, especially when it comes to payment card information printed on customer receipts. Under a federal anti-id... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/470008847.html?nid=3433 If you aren’t, under the recent decision by the California Supreme Court in Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, your business may be liable t... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/970008697.html?nid=3433 The federal Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires that "places of public accommodation" be accessible to individuals with d... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/690008669.html?nid=3433 "Phishing" is a term that is used to refer to the practice of using a fraudulent Web sites to gather personal information from users b... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1870007787.html?nid=3433 In our last post, we explained a few things about open source software. If you decide to download and use open source software, or if you are ... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/1860007786.html?nid=3433 LINUX. Firefox. Apache HTTP server. You may have heard of these software products, but what separates them from more common programs such as ... http://www.expertBusinessSource.com/blog/720000272/post/730007473.html?nid=3433 The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace has prompted marketers to focus on social relationships to get the word out about their pr...