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New York Small Busi­ness Gen­eral Coun­sel Plans

by Fred Abramson

Are you sur­prised by all the paper­work and details involved in get­ting a new busi­ness up and run­ning? It’s incred­i­ble, isn’t it?  There are many deci­sions you have to make, expenses that never stop, and every time you think you’ve got a han­dle on things, some­thing else pops up.

I’ve got news for you: It doesn’t get any eas­ier.  If you are a vet­eran busi­ness owner you know that there will be more paper­work, more details, more decisions.

But guess what? It’s worth it! I under­stand how excited you are about your busi­ness and you want to do every­thing for your busi­ness to succeed.

Your busi­ness can suc­ceed, you know.  I’ve observed many start-up com­pa­nies suc­ceed.  But only sometimes.

But, I have observed many busi­nesses go bank­rupt. Some within one month.

Even though they worked hard and had the best of inten­tions, many busi­ness own­ers lose every­thing.  It’s ugly: tremen­dous debts, dreams and aspi­ra­tions dashed. Many have to return back to work for the job they hate so that they can pay off their debts.

What makes the dif­fer­ence?  Why do some busi­ness own­ers amass great wealth while oth­ers fail miserably?

As a lawyer, I am prob­a­bly not the one to tell you how to build a suc­cess­ful com­pany.  But as a busi­ness attor­ney who rep­re­sents peo­ple like you, I can tell you exactly how to make your business fail.

LITIGATION. Get­ting sued.  Many busi­ness own­ers go out of busi­ness because of  a large judg­ment against them that they can­not pay.  Or, they spend so much on legal fees, it wipes them out.

Want to know some­thing else?  It’s amaz­ing, but in many cases these own­ers could have avoided the law­suit com­pletely, or pro­tected them­selves from per­sonal lia­bil­ity.  They could have survived!

All they had to do was get some legal advice. In advance.

Before they signed a lease or con­tract.  Before they took on a part­ner or hired an employee.  Before they made busi­ness deci­sions involv­ing seri­ous legal consequences.

Ten min­utes of legal advice may have pre­vented all that fail­ure, bank­ruptcy, mis­ery, and shame

But they don’t get that advice, do they?  And we both know why.

The cost.

On top of all the other expenses of start­ing and run­ning a new busi­ness, there never seems to be enough left for legal fees.  After all, legal advice is expensive, right?

Not any­more.

The Law Office of Fred­eric R. Abram­son offers fee struc­tures that is more than billable hours.

There is a way for you to have the legal advice you need at a cost so low you would be a fool to turn it down.

Here is what it’s all about:

My firm has just intro­duced what I call the “Small Busi­ness Gen­eral Coun­sel Plan.”  For a monthly retainer of only $450, you get up to two hours of free tele­phone con­sul­ta­tions and attor­ney legal doc­u­ment review every month.

You can ask all the ques­tions you want and get the money-saving, headache-avoiding answers you need. You can have me review and com­ment on con­tracts, leases, let­ters, forms and any­thing else you use in your busi­ness.  You’ll know what’s legal, what’s fair, and what’s not.  No sur­prises. No more doubts.

Do you real­ize what that means? It means you can sleep like a baby at night know­ing that your attor­ney is “on call.”  It means that you can get the answers that you need, when you need them, so you can quickly get back to run­ning your business.

It means never hav­ing to “blindly” sign any­thing that could cost you thou­sands of dol­lars more than you should have paid because you didn’t have time to read the “fine print.”  It means never hav­ing to make uni­formed deci­sions that could get you sued for hun­dreds of thou­sands in damages.

It means incred­i­ble piece of mind for you and your family.

That alone must be worth more than $450 a month to you, yet that’s all it costs.

Call me at 212–233‑0666 to get started today or ask me any ques­tions about how the plan could help you achieve your goals.

I look  for­ward speak­ing with you.

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New York Small Busi­ness Gen­eral Coun­sel Plans

Do you have a Default Judgment against you in NY? It may be void.

by Fred Abramson

The New York Attor­ney Gen­eral announced today that they are suing 35 law firms for improper ser­vice of default Do you have a Default Judgment against you in NY? It may be void. judg­ments. A party obtains a default judg­ment when the defen­dant does not appear in a law­suit. Amer­i­can Legal Ser­vice, a process server located in Long Island has been named by the Attor­ney Gen­eral as pro­vid­ing improper \“sewer\”  ser­vice.  The 35 law firms have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

If you wish to re-open a default judg­ment against you due to improper ser­vice based on the Attor­ney General\‘s action today you should:

1.  Go to the county clerk in the county where the default was filed and obtain the court file.  Check the affi­davit of ser­vice to see if Amer­i­can Legal Ser­vice was the process server.

2.  If you are unable to ascer­tain the name of the process server, check the law firm who started the law­suit.  If it is one of the 35 law firms listed in the Attor­ney General\‘s com­plaint then:

3.  File a motion to vacate the default for improper ser­vice of process.

At this point, it is unclear what the reme­dies would be for insti­tut­ing an action, espe­cially in cases where the statute of lim­i­ta­tions has run for vacat­ing a default.  In New York, the statute of lim­i­ta­tions is one year.  How­ever, the court or some other gov­ern­men­tal body may fash­ion new law based on this mass fraud.

Do you have a Default Judgment against you in NY? It may be void.

New York Business Law and Civil Litigation

by Fred Abramson

In my world, suc­cess is when you fur­ther your  inter­ests. It’s as sim­ple as that.

Since 1997 I have advised small busi­ness own­ers about what they must know  before enter­ing into a con­tract so that they could limit their risk of fac­ing costly civil lit­i­ga­tion and bad press.  As a com­pany lawyer,  I tell busi­nesses own­ers and peo­ple what they should do if they have been sued.

I have suc­cess­fully rep­re­sented a range of New York com­pa­nies, from non-profits to exec­u­tive search firms, along with many peo­ple. I have lec­tured about busi­ness law for many dif­fer­ent groups, includ­ing  con­tin­u­ing legal edu­ca­tion classes for lawyers.

Take the first step. Con­tact me to get your New York Busi­ness Law and Civil Lit­i­ga­tion ques­tions answered by an expe­ri­enced lawyer with a deep under­stand­ing of the prob­lems you’re facing.

When you’re ready to take the next step you can begin the process online. If you’d like to sched­ule a free, no-obligation con­sul­ta­tion in my office you can call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 212–233-0666 or fill out the con­tact form below.

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Business Law

by Fred Abramson

Hir­ing a busi­ness law attor­ney is cru­cial for any suc­cess­ful busi­ness.  As a pas­sion­ate busi­ness owner, I know that your busi­ness is impor­tant.  Your legal needs must be met so that your focus is on grow­ing business.

I pro­vide busi­ness advi­sor and legal ser­vices to entre­pre­neurs, start-up busi­nesses and other enti­ties from plan­ning and for­ma­tion to sale or other dis­po­si­tion of the busi­ness.  I will guide you through the devel­op­ment of your busi­ness plan, choice of entity and any busi­ness struc­tural decision.

Below you will find a par­tial list­ing of my Busi­ness Law Ser­vices. If you don\‘t see a par­tic­u­lar topic listed and you would like more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact my office so I can pro­vide to you the infor­ma­tion you need.

  • Draft and Nego­ti­ate Contracts
  • Buy-Sell Agree­ments
  • Pur­chase and Asset Sales Agreements
  • Employ­ment Agreements
  • Inde­pen­dent Con­trac­tor Agreements
  • Set­tle­ment Agreements
  • Con­struc­tion Contracts
  • Com­mer­cial Leases
  • Cor­po­rate For­ma­tion (Inc, C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, LLP)
  • Cor­po­rate Min­utes and Record Keeping
  • Real Estate
  • Share­holder Agreements
  • Social Media, E-Commerce & Social Media Law
  • Non-Disclosure Agreements/Confidentiality
  • Trade­marks
  • Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Agreements
  • Tech­nol­ogy and Ven­ture Licens­ing Agreements

Arti­cles of interest:

Busi­ness Sale:

Con­tracts:

Cor­po­rate Formation:

Social Media Law:

Start-Ups:

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by Fred Abramson

FREDERIC R. ABRAMSON

My law prac­tice encom­passes both lit­i­ga­tion and trans­ac­tional law.  My typ­i­cal day often begins with review­ing files that demand imme­di­ate atten­tion.  There­after, I usu­ally appear in court, where I attend depo­si­tions and appear before judges at con­fer­ences, motions and tri­als. Out­side the court­room, I con­tinue my zeal­ous rep­re­sen­ta­tion of my clients by per­form­ing research, prepar­ing for court, draft­ing con­tracts and review­ing other legal paperwork.  I also visit my clients at both their offices and homes.

When not in the office, I like to spend time with my wife, kids, fam­ily and friends. On week­ends, I enjoy cook­ing a wide vari­ety of foods, from bar­be­cued salmon sand­wiches to recre­at­ing Ital­ian feasts.  I enjoy attend­ing cul­tural events and explor­ing dif­fer­ent areas of New York City and Long Island.

I am a vora­cious reader of books, news­pa­pers, mag­a­zines, web­sites, blogs and trade jour­nals relat­ing to busi­ness, law, non-fiction, lit­er­a­ture, cur­rent events, and his­tory. I also love to watch and par­tic­i­pate in sports, lis­ten to music and paint. Three of my works can be found on the rotat­ing images on the right mar­gin through­out this blog.  I have trav­eled exten­sively through­out the United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico.

I received my law degree (J.D) from Quin­nip­iac Uni­ver­sity  School of Law in 1996 and my B.A. in Polit­i­cal Sci­ence from the State Uni­ver­sity of New York at Albany in 1990.  I stud­ied law at the Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don at Kens­ing­ton via the Detroit-Mercy School of Law in the fall of 1995.  I am admit­ted to prac­tice law in both state and fed­eral courts of the State of New York.  I am a mem­ber of the New York County Lawyers Association.

For more, read Lance Godards Twit­ter inter­view with me at 22 Tweets.

Read my guest post at smallbiztechnology.com:  Social Net­works and the Law

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