When starting up a business, there are some important legal matters that you’ll have to deal with, no matter how much you’d love to just dive in and get started. However, if you neglect these legal steps, you’re going to find that maintaining the business down the road becomes much more difficult, and in some...Read More

DONWEST Legal, LLC offers clients a full range of legal services related to the creation, ownership and governance of the different legal entities under which their businesses may operate.  Maryland Business entities comes in so many types that business owners can easily get confused. Here’s a quick guide that will hopefully shed a little light...Read More

Like many other E-Biz owners, you may not feel inclined to structure your online business as a legal entity. Maybe you argue that your business is too small or that you only sell on eBay. Or perhaps you feel the process is too expensive. But the real question isn’t the size of your business, or...Read More

Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. Examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with cash or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of others to the site. The industry has four...Read More

Executive Summary Analysts estimate that national, state and local sales tax losses on e-commerce will grow to $11.4 billion by 2012.  In the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, states are pressed to find additional sources of revenue.  With e-commerce sales continuing to rise, and with both purchasers and sellers usually...Read More

Sitton v. Print Direction, Inc., — S.E.2d —, 2011 WL 4469712 (Ga.App. September 28, 2011) A Georgia court held that an employee using a personal laptop to conduct business for a competitor did not have an invasion of privacy claim when his employer busted him at work using the laptop to send email. Plaintiff-employee worked...Read More

From the Maryland Daily Record Top 5 business stories of 2010:  The most-read stories of 2010 by The Daily Record’s business reporting team mirror many of the big ongoing stories that have dominated the news since the economy cratered two years ago — failed banks, slot machine gambling, struggling commercial real estate developments, and City Hall...Read More

Launching a law firm at age 29, straight out of law school, and in this economy may seem to be a risky move. However, Dondi “Don” West has done just that. Dondi has leveraged his expertise learned as a U.S. Navy Officer and technology consultant, and through a business process known as “Wargaming,” he has...Read More

ZDNet – ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government Computer Weekly – Politicians gain control of the internet LA Times – U.S. getting out of the Internet management business — sort of Computerworld – ICANN freed from US gov’t oversightRead More