No sensible businessperson would leave money lying around the office or keys to the company car in the ignition. But sometimes the most important assets of a company, its “trade secrets,” are left completely unprotected.

Imagine one of your employees leaves for the competition or starts their own competing business with your market strategies or ideas for new products.

You receive a call from a client who asks to meet with you regarding a new business venture. He tells you that the business venture he contemplates is, in fact, a charitable organization.

LITIGATION is a poor way to settle disputes, especially when it takes place among parties who have to continue doing business with each other. Executives are distracted, profits decline, the economy suffers, the lawyers get rich and so on.

The Illinois Bar Journal recently reported that alternative billing arrangements for legal fees (other than by the hour) are coming to Main Street America.