“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” So wrote Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. I think businesses are like that, too. Scan down the membership list of your trade association or take a moment… Read More
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The Benefits of a Flashy Thingy
Yesterday, a client asked me for a neuralizer. Of course, he didn’t call it that. (And why can’t they ever use its correct name?) He used the term Will Smith tagged it with in Men in Black – the “flashy thingy.” By either term,… Read More
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The Luxury of Long Term Thinking
In the early nineteenth century, around 4,000 Quaker families ran 74 Quaker British banks and more than 200 Quaker companies. As Deborah Cadbury writes in her book Chocolate Wars: “For the Quaker capitalists of the nineteenth century, the idea that wealth-creation… Read More
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Iron Fist in a Latex Glove
By Michael Lentz, Wagonheim Law Attorney As a business lawyer with cerebral palsy who generally uses a wheelchair to get around, I can see both sides of the “reasonable accommodation” for disabilities debate in a way that few people can…. Read More
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Knowing When to Say “No”
In all my years of practice, I have never once regretted turning down a prospective client. I have, however, found myself living with the regret of having accepted a client or a case I never should have taken. Now, you… Read More
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A Supermodel, or a Kicker?
By Michael Lentz, Wagonheim Law Attorney Super Bowl 46If you own or operate a business, things are going to go wrong. With planning, preparation, and a little luck, your disasters will be small and infrequent, but they’re going to happen…. Read More
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If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get
I was straining to hear the other parties to the conference call as the two sides debated a sensitive issue with significant ramifications. The matter at hand was a large corporate sale spanning several states, two separate buyers under family… Read More
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Tell Me No Secrets
The American people, we are told, want their government to be more transparent. Whether or not that’s actually true, one thing is for sure: when the subject is business, rather than government, we strongly prefer old-fashioned secrecy. Customer lists, patents,… Read More
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Silence in the Face of Things that Matter
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Yesterday, on the federal holiday that is Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, I went to… Read More
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New Year’s Resolutions for Your Business
It seems like every year I have read articles (now blogs) condemning the practice of making New Year’s Resolutions. The critics charge that efforts to change for the better should not be reserved for one day on the calendar, but rather… Read More