Spiller Law Business and Entertainment Law Blog

A blog post advising artists about how to negotiate entertainment contracts.

This blog post describes the steps involved in trademarking your company's logo with the USPTO

How to avoid five mistakes made by business owners when selling their businesses

Understanding Partnership Taxation for LLCs: Contributions, Profit Allocation, and Qualified Income

This post is about how to undertake your own trademark search without a lawyer.

This post is about the benefits of having an experienced business attorney review your business contracts.

This post discusses whether California companies should form out-of-state entities. It explores the advantages and disadvantages of doing so

This post describes the pros and cons of loan out companies, what they are, what purposes they serve, and how they are created

This post explains how to avoid the common mistakes made when forming a joint venture

This post discusses the mistakes business owners make when it comes to trademarks.

This post speaks of the advantages of businesses working with smaller boutique law firms over big law firms.

This post gives 5 tips on how startup entrepreneurs can successfully negotiate with venture capital firms about funding their businesses

A post about how independent contractors could benefit from forming Loan-out corporations

This article discusses the value a business lawyer and general counsel can bring to a digital startup, small business, or mature business.

How you can settle a California tax debt with the FTB by offering an amount in compromise.

The article discusses legal issues like IP infringment, data protection, privacy, and ethics violations.

This article discusses what an offer letter is and why startups use it instead of a long-form employment agreement.

A blog post suggesting 4 ways you can transfer an LLC to a new State

This is a blog post about work-for-hire agreements.

A blog post about the costs of registering an international trademark and tips on saving on that cost