Free legal documents for entrepreneurs
Navigating the legal waters as you launch a business can be a perilous journey. Good attorneys are expensive and the temptation to cut corners and jump into product development is often a strong one.
Of course, giving in to that temptation can cost you dearly down the road, as initial team members move on and VCs come calling. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a law firm specializing in start-ups, has put together an online ‘tool kit’ for… Continue Reading
Lawyers, watch out — Avvo is rating you
Avvo is a new company that lets people find good attorneys, letting them seeing how others have rated the lawyers, and whether they have been disciplined. It lets users rate attorneys too.
Avvo is bound to stir controversy. Lawyers given bad ratings are already disturbed. See the story by John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. One poorly rated criminal defense lawyer calls it “a joke.”
This can be a very valuable service. However, it is open… Continue Reading
Valley in merger fever: Google looks at SimplyHired?
Over coffee today, Silicon Valley lawyer Warren Lazarow was telling VentureBeat that merger and acquisition activity is “out of control….there’s more action right now than during the boom.”
A few minutes later, Lazarow, a leading lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers, looked down at his Blackberry, and became transfixed by an email. He got up and, as if in a trance, wandered out of the Woodside Bakery, not once taking his eye off the Blackberry. A deal… Continue Reading