HOUSTON BUSINESS REVIEW

CYA: INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY AND YOUR PROFITS!
By Shahara Wright

Shahara D. Wright, Business Law Attorney, "Serving businesses from start-up through expansion". You can cantact her by: calling her at (281) 980-2040, sending her an e-mail or visiting her website. For more information concerning Shahara Wright click here.

So you are sitting in your office working on nailing down a contract, and the other party decides to send you their standard contract. Being the astute business person that you are, you look over the contract and find changes. You send your changes to them, they send changes to you, then you have to go through their legal department and before you know it, you have spent countless hours working on this contract and away from your business.

Why did you do this? To save money? Time? If your business had an attorney for which it could rely upon to handle its business transactions, you would have saved more money and time than you did working on the contract. Why? Consider the amount of time and effort you spent review the contract or negotiation with the other party’s lawyer. How much of that time could you have spent securing other contracts or selling your product or billing hours under another contract? The amount of money that you would have paid to your attorney would have been less than the amount that you made working on your business.

Having a business law attorney on your side that knows you and your business is imperative in this day in age. You want an attorney who you have had an opportunity to get to know and work with before something goes wrong. As a business owner, you want to surround yourself with persons who are there to assist you in the growth of your company, not just to save it from destruction. As a business law attorney, my job is to assist my clients with protecting their business and making sure that they have as much working in their favor as possible. I understand that it is important for my clients to know and understand their legal rights and responsibilities, and to make sure that they continue to profit.

Does your business need an attorney? Well, if you intend to increase your business; the answer is yes. If you are hiring new employees; the answer is yes. If you are expanding by purchasing a new business, entering a lease, or offering shares in your company; the answer is yes. In this litigious society, it is important that businesses protect themselves at all times. The difference between having an attorney for your business and not having one can make the difference between the thousands of dollars you will spend on a law suit or the thousand of dollars you will save by staying out of the courtroom.

Nothing in this article is intended as legal advice and you should consult an attorney before making any decisions.