I love being a business and technology lawyer. In my 13 years in practice (12 of them spent here in Philadelphia), my greatest source of professional satisfaction has been spending time with many terrific business clients, getting to know them and learning to appreciate their ideas, hopes and worries. I consider myself particularly lucky to have started my practice in the era of the Internet, which opened new vistas for business lawyers and confronted us with all the possibilities, as well as the legal challenges, of emerging technologies. I am also thrilled to live and work in Philadelphia, with its rich arts scene, growing technology sector and vibrant nightlife, and its new focus on walkable urbanism and sustainable quality of living.
Baer Business Law is a new type of law firm focused on providing affordable high-quality contracting, transactional and business counseling services to small and medium-sized businesses, non-profits and others concerned with managing legal costs. Baer Business Law is the brainchild of its founder, Andrew M. Baer, who, after spending 13 years working at large law firms and as in-house corporate counsel, understands that business clients want a lawyer who thinks like them, is oriented toward results, and can deliver large-firm expertise at low cost.
Andrew is a highly skilled transactional lawyer with more than a decade of…
Business Formation. Whether to form an entity, what type of entity (LLC, LLP, S corp., or C. corp.), and in which state to organize are critical decisions for a startup business, impacting its tax treatment, governance structure and ability to attract investors, as well as the liability of its principals. Getting solid legal advice and assistance from before birth will help you chart a course for future growth.
Read Andrew Baer’s blog for useful tips and updates about legal issues facing businesses, information on cutting-edge developments in e-commerce, technology and intellectual property law, ruminations on the Philadelphia legal market, rhapsodic musings on Center City restaurants and bars, and many other morsels.
VC’s Say…
Greetings from New York City, where I’m attending a venture capital law conference. I’m happy to say that rumors of the demise of VC fund[......]
Confessions of an App Divorce Lawyer
BE STINGY WITH THAT EQUITY. So I tell my entrepreneurial clients who plan to provide the ideas and initial cash (such as it is) for a startup, and wa[......]
Update on ICANN Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Initiative
In the summer of ‘09 I blogged about ICANN’s initiative to authorize potentially hundreds of new gTLD’s (e.g., .bank, .pizza, etc.).[......]
Social Media Lawsuit from Flash Mob Incident?
On Tuesday, February 16, a “flash mob” of teenage delinquents, allegedly incited by postings on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, descended o[......]
Snowed In
Sorry you haven’t heard from me lately. I’m digging out from the Blizzard(s) of 2010 both literally and figuratively, but will return thi[......]
What is Technology?
This (metaphysical?) question throbbed at the heart of the November, 2009 oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the Bilski v. Kappos case and may[......]
Can Tweets Be Defamatory?
Someone famous — so famous that I’ve forgotten who it is — once observed that the world is riven into two diametrically opposing fac[......]
How to Protect Your Idea in Business Discussions
A lot of entrepreneurs and startup clients are understandably concerned about disclosing proprietary information in conversations with third parties, [......]
Genetic Information and Social Media: Employers Beware
Two emerging 21st Century technologies — genetic testing and genomic (or personalized) medicine and Web 2.0 — may create legal risks and h[......]
Merry Christmas from Baer Business Law
This will likely be my last post before Christmas, and so, in the spirit of the season, I am leaving you with a few images of the December 19 blizzard[......]
