Monopoly©. One of the best ways to learn about starting a new business is through this board game. This life-like game not only teaches how to strategize but when to buy or when to sell as well as educates some of the fundamentals of your cash flow. Is it better to own one of Park Place or Boardwalk or the …
Do you remember as a kid having a lemonade stand? It seemed so simple to sell lemonade. All that you needed was a sign, customers, and lemonade, right? As a kid, you didn’t think about how the customers were going to hear about your business (marketing), where you are going to get money to make the lemonade (financing), or what …
Dispute resolution is a term used to describe how problems are fixed or corrected. In order to best advise clients, we take the time to understand the nature of the problem the client is facing. We learn more by listening to the client than by giving recommendations. The conversation next turns to what the client wants the final state of …
From the courtroom to the boardroom, our goal at Yolofsky Law is to help clients achieve their goals quickly and efficiently. Trust, technology, and communication are the key fundamentals that enable our firm to successfully maneuver clients through legal disputes. Starting with the end in mind. Before a strategy for dispute resolution can be formed, we must begin with a full understanding …
Friday nights are typically spent winding down the week by trying to organize the chaos of corralling small children. A bit to my surprise, my wife remarked, “there are police cars in front of the house, what’s going on?” True enough, when I looked out the window there were actually 4 police cars in the vicinity of the house – …
Donald Trump published a book many years ago titled “The Art of the Deal.” Dozens of articles are published every year about negotiating a better deal. This past week, the United States announced that a framework of a deal to restrict Iran’s ability to obtain nuclear weapons. However, the details still need to get worked out before June 30, 2015. …
Justice can sometimes move at a pace of major city rush hour traffic. However, courts do arrive at the correct decision when they are given a chance to apply the law. In April of 2015, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal released its decision in the case of Griffin Industries, Inc. v. Dixie Southland Corp. I was Dixie’s trial counsel and we …
Recently, the sports world was abuzz with the findings of the Wells Report that Tom Brady was more likely than not to have had knowledge of the fact that official game balls were deflated to a point under the NFL’s minimum pressure. Brady emphatically denied knowing or participating in any type of cheating. Based on the conclusions of the Wells …
Where to hold a legal event? The other day in court, I observed two lawyers arguing about where mediation should take place. The first lawyer, from a prestigious Florida law firm, argued that the mediation should not occur at the plaintiff’s office because the facilities there were not comfortable enough; therefore, it should be held at a court reporter’s office. …
Reduce Liability by Properly Classifying Independent Contractors Throughout the Art of War, Master Tzu often instructs that the leader must depend on the quality of the army in order to wage war. In business, the CEO must create a team that will execute the business’ tasks on the path to success. An old adage of entrepreneurship is to “only do …
