Everything You Need To Know About Virginia’s Minimum Wage
With so many changes coming to businesses this year, an important question to ask is “What is Virginia’s minimum wage?” On May 1, 2021, Virginia’s minimum wage increased from $7.25 to
With so many changes coming to businesses this year, an important question to ask is “What is Virginia’s minimum wage?” On May 1, 2021, Virginia’s minimum wage increased from $7.25 to
What if you want to divide liability and management within your limited liability company?
By Tricia Dunlap Esq. ~4 minute read Part 3 – LLC Education Series: The Perilous Position of LLC Minority Members Limited liability companies are highly popular, very flexible business entities. They are cheaply and easily formed which unfortunately creates the illusion that lawyers aren’t necessary. Au contraire. The truth is that LLC’s can be a nasty trap for…
By Tricia Dunlap Esq. ~2 minute read See more videos and blog posts Part 5 – LLC Education Series Fiduciary Duties: The Responsibilities You Never Knew You Had Good faith and fair dealing. Loyalty. Care. Sometimes these seem like quaint concepts. A throwback to a kinder era. In reality, they are implied responsibilities and “fiduciary duties” that can…
By Tricia Dunlap Esq. ~2 minute read Part 4 – LLC Education Series Hotel California: You Can Checkout but You Can Never Leave Relatively early in my legal career, a new client arrived with a terrible dilemma. About a decade earlier, he and his buddy decided to invest in real estate. His buddy contributed more money, so my client…
By Tricia Dunlap Esq. ~9-10 Minute Read 6 New Laws In The Virginia Values Act The Virginia Values Act went into effect on July 1st, 2020. This was a significant law in Virginia that our General Assembly passed in the last session and it has some really important provisions for business owners to…
Tricia Dunlap, Esq. & Ben Nelson Ben Nelson is an experienced technologist at SingleStone Consulting who has provided custom application development and technical leadership for the public and private sectors. He is a writer, podcaster, and presenter. ~4 minute read Be Smart(er) about Data Collection In recent years, many businesses have come to perceive data…
Subscribe to our YouTube channel Tricia Dunlap, Esq. ~4 minute read 3 Tips to Prevent Coronavirus Lawsuits Coronavirus lawsuits are pretty hyped in the news lately and if you’re a business owner you might even be a little freaked out about it. I’m here to tell you that it’s a harder case to win than the…
Subscribe to our YouTube channel Tricia Dunlap, Esq. ~3-4 minute read SaaS Vendor Evaluation: 3 Criteria For Choosing Software This is part three of a three-part series on choosing software and what SaaS vendor is right for your business. In part one, I talked about principles around data privacy that your business should consider and…
Subscribe to our YouTube channel Tricia Dunlap, Esq. ~3-4 minute read 5 Tips To Secure Your Data: Security For SaaS Applications Let’s talk about security for SaaS applications and its role in choosing a SaaS vendor. This is part two of a three part series on choosing a SaaS vendor because it’s fairly complicated. If…
Subscribe to our YouTube channel Tricia Dunlap, Esq. ~4 minute read What is SaaS and Why You Need To Be Careful: 4 Tips for Picking SaaS Vendors What is SaaS? Software as a Service is necessary for all modern businesses. It includes software such as G-Suite, MailChimp, SalesForce, and Microsoft products. But right now let’s…
https://youtu.be/LC-9qQoFdOs Tricia Dunlap, Esq. ~2 minute read Employee Discrimination: What To Do and What Not To Do As a business owner, I imagine that you have worked long and hard to create a productive, inclusive, and empowering culture for your employees. It’s really important, as you come back to work after the COVID-19 crisis, that…
~4 minute read COVID-19 Response Emergency Act On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, the Washington, D.C. City Council enacted the COVID-19 Response Emergency Amendment Act of 2020. This new legislation expanded unemployment compensation benefits, increased job-protected leave for D.C. workers, deferred sales tax payments, and created a micro-grant program to assist recovery for D.C.-based businesses and D.C. employees.…
By Tricia Dunlap (Esq. & CIPP/US) On November 8, 2019, Kenya adopted a data privacy law aligned with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a result, Kenyans now have more data privacy rights than many Americans. Kenya hopes to attract more investment from foreign tech firms. Recently, they increased data privacy protection legal standards…