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.
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[......]
Tech Chestnuts for the Winter Chill
The Big Freeze has descended on Old City, Philadelphia, but come and warm youself by the tech hearth — Santa’s got a few juicy tidbits in [......]
Just Before the Dawn
I just finished an article for SearchCompliance.com, one of the sites I write for as a legal contributor, about the November 9 oral arguments before t[......]
Sidewiki Raises IP, Brand Concerns for Site Owners
Sidewiki, a new functionality available on the Google toolbar, allows Internet users to annotate comments on websites. You can see how Sidewiki works[......]
Reading Bilski
Just a quick note this week. I’ve been reading the transcript of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the Bilski case, which I previo[......]
MA Data Security Regulation Finalized — Finally!
Last week the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) submitted the final version of 201 CMR 17.00, the most comprehe[......]
