As a business owner myself, I have been doing my own year-end business planning. My businesses have performed and progressed well in 2017, but I have by no means accomplished all of my objectives with any of my businesses so, while I work on improving their performance and accelerating their progress each and every day, I […]

I recommend that letters of intent, and term sheets, that cover all of the major business points concerning the contemplated transaction, be sufficiently detailed. Why? Because unless there is a fundamental agreement regarding the important business points between or among the parties to the transaction, there is little to no legitimate reason to invest additional […]

For those of you who are purveyors of alcohol or who are counselling purveyors of alcohol, the Ohio Supreme Court recently clarified that a liquor establishment’s workers and independent contractors, if they are served alcohol by the establishment directly or indirectly, are covered by Ohio’s Dram Shop Act, R.C. 4399.18. In Johnson v. Montgomery, 2017-Ohio-7445, […]

I have had the opportunity to work for and with literally hundreds of business owners and managers over the course of my career in the private practice of business law. I can’t say for certain, as I have not collected the relevant data, but it occurs to me that many of the most successful of […]