Legal Questions

I am a member of an LLC along with two others. We each own 33% of the company and have invested very little. One of the three members has expressed interest in cashing out, severing all ties to...

LLC Legal

asked Jan 11 '12 at 17:16

Rachel557
11 points

I'm a non US citizen, member of a US Domestic LLC formed last year. The LLC pays taxes in the US, has both EIN and DUNS and has no employees yet. I would like to sponsor a non US citizen...

Visa Legal

asked Jan 14 '12 at 01:57

Tchitcho
18 points

Just got quoted 3k from our legal team to file for a trademark. They cited their search report was much more thorough than what we could do on our own. Anybody filed successful trademarks on their...

Legal Trademark

asked Jan 14 '12 at 08:47

Eric Littleton
107 points

I have an unlimited webhosting plan from http://www.domainindia.org/web_site_hosting_india.php. I want to give my users a registered domain name like: usersite.com and provide a cpanel to them...

Legal Hosting

asked Jan 15 '12 at 19:58

Sunil Kumar
1 point

Having a web site that may contain source code posted by users, I am in need of a completely obligation free license, and a statement by which users agree code posted by them is allowed to be...

Software Legal Software Licensing

asked Jan 16 '12 at 12:25

Leo
120 points

What if I make my father register the business? Can the employer close the business if my father will be the legal owner of the business? I am in Canada and my contract allow me to work as...

Legal Business

asked Jan 16 '12 at 18:14

Iron Mannnn
3 points

I want to create a company in the US and in the process obtain a Investor Visa. Although we want to focus on the US market, our plans are not to move right away there. The main reason is the...

Legal USA

asked Dec 29 '11 at 19:34

Javier Chamizo
6 points

What states in the United States, if any, require business registration to solicitate business and collect revenue? In this scenario, the business has no opperations in the state the business is...

Legal Registration

asked Jan 2 '12 at 07:05

Blunders .
899 points

I work in Qatar as an IT administrator. I have developed a piece of software for my company in my free time. Developing software isn't part of my duties. If the company asks for the program's...

Legal

asked Jan 3 '12 at 12:07

Supun Silva
36 points

I was looking for freelance work and met with a lawyer who had some work for me. The lawyer asked if I could build a product for him. I told the lawyer I can build the product and will charge him a...

Ideas Legal

asked Dec 19 '11 at 05:21

Antonio
21 points

I'm 15, and an enthusiast programmer, I've built loads of web based applications, some of which have even been called useful after demo'ing them to others, apps that have not been created (atleast...

Legal Company Business

asked Dec 22 '11 at 01:53

Karan K
26 points

I'm talking about those Invention Assignment clauses in employment contracts (especially with regards to California labor code section 2870) "Prohibiting employee assignment to an employer of...

Software Legal Copyright Intellectual Property Bootstrap

asked Dec 25 '11 at 21:34

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

Does anybody know of any actual court cases involving California labor code section 2870 which gives a clear precedence as to how judges would rule in such disputes (eg. a programmer makes...

Software Legal Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Dec 26 '11 at 17:26

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

I have been working on finding an investor for the LTPGA - The Less Than Perfect Golfers Association, Inc. Finding a golf-centric angel who has a sense of humor would be ideal. The basic math is...

Sales Ecommerce Legal Online Retail

asked Dec 27 '11 at 14:39

Bubba G
1 point

My startup received a Terms Sheet from an investor and my co-founder and I are trying to figure out if they are saying that they are going to want 30% of our profits at the end of every year or if...

Legal Angel Investment Term Sheet

asked Dec 9 '11 at 10:04

Tom Delaney
16 points

If there's a Founder's Agreement in place with a vesting schedule, how does one actually go about firing a co-founder such that he loses his unvested equity? For a three person startup (split...

Legal

asked Dec 13 '11 at 05:35

Helo
11 points

I am a software developer and I have been working with a few others in a startup for just over a year. However there has been a lot of conflicts lately and I can no longer work with them. I have...

Legal Shares

asked Dec 16 '11 at 03:43

James Gu
103 points

When my company first got setup and registered domains, we were unable to get the .com of our company name, as it was already registered. We have all of the other top level domains for our name...

Legal Trademark Domain

asked Dec 17 '11 at 03:31

Bwasson
1,162 points

We want to run a promotion on our website. In the promotion, if someone can provide us proof of purchase of a competitor's software license, we will give them a free software license of our...

UK Legal Competition Promotion

asked Dec 2 '11 at 04:01

James
58 points

My partner and I are software developers. We have formed an LLC and are starting to take consulting gigs. We have spent most of our careers at larger companies and have never been involved with...

Software Contract Legal Consulting

asked Dec 2 '11 at 15:15

Frank
113 points