Many of our firm's clients are early-stage businesses. After we help them with their startup legal needs -- forming their company, applying to trademark their product, drafting their standard customer contracts, and so on -- their next step is to focus on growing their business....
School’s out for summer! Wa-hoo! Now, what are all these talented kids going to do with all their free time? ;) Welcome to the startup world, interns! I struggle with naming one person I know who hasn’t been an intern at some point in their careers....
We help a lot of software developers manage their contracts and relationships with their clients, and we've seen them run into a few problems over and over. Here are three common challenges developers encounter, coupled with our tips on how a good software development agreement can prevent them. 1....
It ain't easy being an aging rock god. You've got mortgages to pay, royalties are dwindling in the Spotify age, and the kids aren't coming out to see you tour anymore. What's a guy to do? If you're like the singers for KISS and Styx,...
Plenty of people spend their nights and weekends working on a startup or another business “side project” that’s separate from their day job. That can be exciting and rewarding. But it’s worth taking a second to make sure you have the legal rights to work...
Each week, we meet people who moved to Maine recently from another tech & startup ecosystem -- New York City, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, even Nairobi. And more and more local entrepreneurs are launching their own startups in Maine today. One question they're all asking: how do...
You know that feeling when you read a legal document and you think Why isn’t this written in plain English? Why is everything “whereas” and “hereinafter?” Can’t they write it in a way that people can understand? Yes. You can have contracts that people can understand. And...
In the hustle and bustle of holiday season, Portland landlords may have missed an important rule that the City of Portland announced today: all landlords, including Airbnb hosts, must file a registration form with the City and pay an annual fee by January 1, 2016....