Does Your Small Business Need a Social Media Policy?
According to 2018 data, 77% of U.S. small businesses use social media for their sales, marketing, and customer service. If you plan to use social media to promote your business, a social media policy is essential to protect your business’s reputation and avoid litigation by preventing the dissemination of inaccurate, unflattering, or illegal information. Here […]
Things You Should Consider for Your Non-Compete Agreement
Companies grow by investing time and money in various resources, including their employees. Yet business owners are often anxious about losing their investment. Once confidential information is shared, there is a risk that an employee will leak the company’s secrets to a competitor, or quit and create a competing business using the confidential information. To […]
Does Your Website Need a Privacy Policy or Terms & Conditions?
Does Your Website Need a Privacy Policy or Terms & Conditions? Conversations about data privacy policies and website terms and conditions have become more common in recent months. Bigger companies like Facebook, Expedia, and Dick’s Sporting Goods have been involved in legal action regarding different privacy issues. The questions on most business owners’ minds are […]
How Do I Start a Home-Based Business?
The number of people working from home has never been higher. During the pandemic, many workers got a taste of the remote-work future and realized that they prefer to work from home. Now, as companies have implemented return-to-office plans, there is an emerging power struggle between employers that want workers back at their desks and […]
Business Ownership Considerations for Non–United States Residents
Moving to a new country and starting a life there presents myriad challenges. Founding a business in the United States as a nonresident can be even more challenging. It requires navigating a convoluted immigration system, which specifically lacks a startup founders visa. That is on top of the extensive paperwork and filings required of all […]
5 Key Benefits of a Well-Written Job Description
Although the main purpose of a job description is to explain the roles of a job, it actually serves a much bigger purpose. In fact, a job description can improve a company’s ability to manage employees in many ways. A well-written job description will do the following: 1. Clarify expectations. Employers need to spell out […]
Corporate Transparency Act
As part of the National Defense Authorization Act (“Act”), Congress recently passed the Corporate Transparency Act to modernize and reform the existing Anti-Money Laundering Act. Therefore, you/your entity may be required by law to report certain information. What entities? Entities that are required to report (“reporting company”) include: for-profit and non-profit corporations, limited liability companies, […]
Super Lawyer Rising Stars
Two of our very own, Angela Forss Schmit and Michael Milone, have been selected as 2022 Super Lawyers Great Plains Rising Star, an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. This badge of honor is only awarded after a thorough, multiphase selection process. During the selection process, lawyers are prohibited from nominating […]
Expanding Our Team to Further Our Service to YOU
Introducing Koukol Johnson & Schmit — After 15 years of partnering together, Dave Koukol and Karisa Johnson are excited to merge with Angela Schmit, who previously ran her own practice for the past 5 years. As of August 1, 2022, Koukol & Johnson, LLC has merged with Schmit Law Firm, LLC to form Koukol Johnson […]
Legally Terminating Employees
Most small business owners will occasionally have to face the unpleasant task of firing an employee. Small businesses, in particular, rely heavily on each employee. An underperforming employee may not only lower the morale of other employees who have to pick up the slack, but may also jeopardize the success of the business. When an […]