You have found the person you want to hire, and that person works for a competitor. You can make the hire; Minnesota law decides how much risk comes with it. Three questions set that risk: whether the …
READ MORE →If you sell to a national retailer such as Target, Best Buy, or Walmart, the payment that arrives is often smaller than your invoice. The gap is deductions: compliance chargebacks, shortage and …
READ MORE →When your company sends a payment to an account that a hacked or spoofed email supplied, two questions follow: can the money come back, and if not, who absorbs the loss? Under Minnesota’s version of …
READ MORE →When a private-equity firm or a larger competitor asks whether you would sell your company, you can talk without committing to anything. What you share, what you sign, and how you treat your co-owners …
READ MORE →Your purchase order says one thing, and the acknowledgment that comes back says another. The goods ship, the invoice is paid, and no one compares the fine print until a shipment fails or a customer …
READ MORE →Your current or former employer is filing a patent application on something you worked on, and it has sent you papers to sign. Here is the short answer: you stay the inventor whether or not the …
READ MORE →You signed an invention assignment when you were hired, and now you are starting your own business or weighing an offer from a competitor. Here is the short answer: the agreement moved ownership of …
READ MORE →If you or someone you love was seriously hurt in an accident in Minnesota, a few early steps protect both your recovery and your claim: getting medical care and staying with it, keeping a record of …
READ MORE →If a family trust was amended shortly before the settlor died and the change cut you out, the path forward is to treat it as a document question first and a family question second. A person may bring …
READ MORE →Start with the operating agreement, because a member is dissociated when the member is expelled as a member pursuant to the operating agreement. Outside the operating agreement, the statute lets the …
READ MORE →You need to learn what happened around the signing: who found the lawyer, who sat in on the meetings, who controlled access to your parent, and how the new will departs from the old one. You also need …
READ MORE →A process server hands your office manager an envelope, and by the time it reaches your desk the clock has already been running. Nothing in the packet tells you how much time you have, and if you …
READ MORE →The letter usually arrives on a Friday. It comes from a lawyer you have never heard of, represents the co-owner you brought in years ago, and uses a phrase nobody has applied to you before: unfairly …
READ MORE →Most Minnesota employers built their break practices around the old law, and most of those practices are now out of date. As of January 1, 2026, an employer must allow a paid rest break of at least 15 …
READ MORE →More Minnesota employers are handing the first cut of hiring to software: resume screeners, video-interview scorers, and ranking algorithms that decide who reaches a human. The tools are useful, and …
READ MORE →When you raise your first outside money, you will almost certainly be handed one of two documents: a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) or a convertible note. Both let you take in cash now and …
READ MORE →Selling your company to your own employees through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is one of the few exit routes that can reward the people who built the business, make continued local …
READ MORE →If your Minnesota company sells into other states, or sells into Minnesota from outside it, you may owe sales tax in places where you have no office, no employees, and no warehouse. That duty comes …
READ MORE →Every business owner eventually manages someone who is not working out: the employee who misses deadlines, resists direction, or disrupts the team. In Minnesota, you usually have more freedom to act …
READ MORE →Picking a business or product name is one of the few early decisions a founder makes that is genuinely hard to undo later. A trademark clearance search is the availability check you run before you …
READ MORE →A business almost certainly owns the AI skill files its employees create on the job, but contractors and departing employees are different. When an employee writes prompts, rules, and skill files to …
READ MORE →For software your business builds largely by prompting an AI, the honest answer is that you own less of it by copyright than you would expect, and copyright was never your strongest protection in the …
READ MORE →Your employees are already using artificial intelligence (“AI”) at work, whether you have approved it or not. The question is not whether to allow it but whether you have written rules that keep …
READ MORE →A Minnesota contractor who pays a framing crew on 1099s used to face a shorter checklist and lighter penalties. Since March 1, 2025, the rules are stricter and the stakes are higher. Under Minn. Stat. …
READ MORE →Minnesota’s first broad consumer privacy law is now in force, and the business owners I advise ask the same two questions: does it reach my company, and what do I do first? The Minnesota Consumer Data …
READ MORE →When two owners of a closely held Minnesota company can no longer work together, the breakup is rarely as simple as one walking away. Someone has to be bought out, and the questions that follow are …
READ MORE →Two people start a company on a handshake and a shared belief that the details will sort themselves out. The details do not sort themselves out. A founder agreement settles equity, vesting, …
READ MORE →A cyberattack on your business is first a legal event, not only a technical one. The hours after you discover that an outsider reached your systems set the trajectory for everything that follows: …
READ MORE →A diversity program is legal in Minnesota right up to the point where a benefit, a slot, or a decision turns on someone’s race or sex. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) makes it …
READ MORE →A reduction in force is one of the few business decisions where the legal exposure can outlast the cost savings. Done in the wrong order, a layoff in Minnesota can generate WARN Act penalties, an …
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