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Whether you are starting a new business, looking to grow your business and managing day to day operations, our attorneys will answer your legal questions and support you on everything from incorporating to drafting of contracts, employment issues and minimizing legal risks.
Day to Day Business Operations
Choice of Business Form – We advise business owners on the selection of their business form, whether it be sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or limited liability company.
Governing Documents – We prepare the necessary documents to create and govern the business organization—articles of incorporation or organization, bylaws, minutes, S corporation election, etc.
Shareholder Agreements – If there is more than one business owner, we will assist the owners in developing a shareholder control agreement or buy-sell agreement.
Contracts – We help you draft and review the contracts necessary for you to serve your customers, do business with outside vendors, hire and/or retain employees and independent contractors and expand into new areas of business.
Buying or Selling a Business – If you want to sell your business or buy another one, we are experienced in representing buyers and sellers and will help you structure and complete the transactions.
General Business Law
You Take Them as you Get Them: Workers’ Compensation Considerations for Employers
Does any injury arise out of employment in Minnesota simply because an employee has pain at work? The answer is – it depends. Minnesota Workers’ Compensation law recognizes that employers take...
Long Time Coming: Minnesota Adopts Changes to its LLC Laws
The State of Minnesota has finally made the change from a limited liability company act grounded on corporate law to a default system based on partnership law. The seeds of this advancement, which wen...
If a party fails to file their case within one year, do they have any recourse?
In Minnesota a lawsuit can be commenced by notifying the defendant. No immediate court filing is necessary. In Gams, the Minnesota Court of Appeals faced the question of whether the recent rule requir...
What is an “exceptional circumstance?”
How does an insurer know when to challenge an award of attorney fees in a Minnesota workers’ compensation action? The answer would usually involve looking to the appropriate statute, as workers’ c...
Minnesota Supreme Court Restricts Challenges to Contingent Attorney Fees
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently addressed a challenge to the reasonableness of contingent attorney fees that were awarded within the statutory cap in David v. Bartel Enterprises (Nitro Green), No...
Some Guidance on Imputed Wages
What happens when the injured employee is also the owner? How are wage loss benefits calculated? Like many a legal question, it depends. However, without providing a clear path to predictability, a re...