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Austin Startup Attorney Helps With Professional Service Contracts Austin Startup Attorney Natalie Lynch can assist your startup with the negotiation and drafting of professional service agreements. Regardless of whether your Austin start up is the provider of the service or the buyer of service it is important to establish the parameters

Austin Startup Attorney Natalie Lynch Creates Non-Compete Agreements A Non-Compete Agreement is an essential aspect of the Employment Agreement. Upon the termination of an employment relationship a non-compete agreement can protect an employer’s business secrets from competitors. These agreements are highly contentious and frowned upon by most states. If they

How Will You Alhambrize Your Austin Startup? In 889, no one had the idea that the Alhambra, in Granada, Spain, was going to be a big deal.  For a while it was Spanish, then it was Moorish, then Muslim Spanish, and then Catholic. There were some other interloping possessors too

Austin Startup Attorney Drafts Confidentiality Agreements Austin Startup Attorney Natalie Lynch can assist your business in drafting confidentiality agreements. Startups often happen when entrepreneurs have/can do something better than their competition and that something must be protected from the competition. In doing business, your startup may need to share information. A properly drafted

Austin Startup Attorney and Negotiations Austin startup attorney Natalie Lynch understands that your startup needs legal solutions (not legal problems) and that negotiations are often the key tool to get you to solutions.  Your startup does not need someone else to run your company.  Treaty Oak ELG knows that no

Austin Business Formation Attorney Natalie Lynch can assist you with all aspects of small business formation. In particular, Treaty Oak ELG can assist in differentiating between entity types to determine the most successful strategy form for your business and its stakeholders. Treaty Oak ELG will consult with you and tailor your

I recently sat down with Sherri Basnett, a co-founder and the organizational genius behind Semiconductor Support Services, or SSSco.  SSSco refurbishes, sells, and servicessemiconductor-manufacturing equipment in Steiner Ranch, Texas. SSSco is a 12 year old company that started operating with a couple of engineers in Ms. Basnett’s garage and now operates world wide.

Most Austin employers collect professional and personal reference information from potential employers. A surprisingly common part of my legal services often includes encouraging employers to call those references. Indifference to the reference-checking process is such everyday folks without decent concerns understand they may still get a job even if they

Natalie Lynch is an Austin startup attorney who recommends the following steps in forming an advisory board: Have a clear set of objectives and needs outlined.  If your goal is to write a new business plan, break the objective down into pieces with deadlines and insist the board accomplish each

Austin Startups often find success and begin the recruiting process to help fuel future growth. Unfortunately, there are typically no HR experts in the Austin startup team, and legal knowledge of advertising and recruiting is usually slim. To none. Keep an eye out for intentionally or accidentally involving religious preference