Smooth Sailing: An Essential Guide to Legally Protecting Your Business

IS YOUR SMALL BUSINESS LEGALLY PROTECTED?

In Smooth Sailing: An Essential Guide to Legally Protecting Your Business, attorney Cheri D. Andrews lays out not only the crucial foundational steps ALL small businesses require to ensure their business is legally compliant and protected at the outset, but also those legal protections that need to be added as a business grows and scales. This essential guide helps both brand new entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners avoid common legal mistakes that put business and personal assets at risk.

Smooth Sailing covers various legal topics, including:

• Business Formation: Is your entity the right match for your business goals?
• Your Dream Team: Choosing the experts to guide you in high-risk areas.
• Contracts: Because “let's wing it” is not a solid business strategy!
• Compliance: Helping you avoid hefty fines and orange jumpsuits.
• Trademark: Locking down the legal rights to your brand.
• Legal Limits: Knowing what you can handle and when you should call an attorney.

Smooth Sailing offers a clear understanding of the key legal components every business owner must address. This knowledge allows you to make legally savvy, confident, informed decisions that ensure your business is thriving.

Cheri D. Andrews, Esq., owns her own law practice, through which she helps small business owners and solopreneurs. When she is not working, Cheri enjoys digital scrapbooking, mixed media art, reading, and travel. Cheri resides in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, with husband Jay of thirty-five years. She is the proud mother of three successful young adult daughters, and grandma to Connor and fur babies Millie and Nemo.

Deborah Kevin (pronounced "KEY-vin"), as the founder and chief inspiration officer of Highlander Press, loves helping change-makers tap into and share their stories of healing and truth with impactful books, including her book entitled You've Written Your Book. Now What? Debby, a Stanford University's Novel Writing program graduate, earned a master's degree in publishing from Western Colorado University. She's trekked the Camino de Santiago and lives in Maryland with the love of her life, Rob, her sons, and their puppy Fergus-that is when they're not off discovering the world.

Hanne Brøter is a graphic designer, visual branding expert, and teacher of graphic design. Her passion is helping entrepreneurs create and maintain a visual look of their businesses that reflects their brand message in a unique and authentic way. She works with entrepreneurs through her business Your Brand Vision and through Broter School of Design, where she teaches graphic design to non-designers who wants to leverage the power of correct graphic design in their marketing.