Practice Guides

Find answers by topic, question, or jurisdiction. Choose a topic to browse its guides.

AI in Hiring & Screening

Using AI to screen, rank, or decide on people — and the discrimination, notice, and bias-audit rules that follow.

AI Use Policies & Employee Mandates

What an acceptable-use policy must cover, and the risks of requiring employees to use AI tools.

AI Vendors, Data & Privilege

Contracting with AI providers — data retention and residency, privilege, trade-secret leakage, indemnities, and lock-in.

AI-Driven Layoffs & Restructuring

Restructuring when AI changes the work — WARN notice requirements, redundancy analysis, and documentation.

Alcohol at Events Laws

Check liquor liability and the alcohol permits an event needs.

Asset Protection Trusts Laws

Review whether a self-settled spendthrift trust protects its settlor from creditors, state by state.

Asset Purchase

Negotiate, draft and close a small-business asset purchase agreement, from structure to the period after closing, including the sale of an app business.

Consumer Privacy Laws

Find the privacy rules that apply to collecting, using, and sharing personal information.

Deed Execution Laws

Check who may take a deed acknowledgment, who may witness, and when remote notarization is available.

Directors and Officers Insurance Laws

Check how a parent entity's D&O policy reaches affiliates and how notice and run-off work.

Employment Offer Letter Laws

Review what an employment offer letter should say about pay and overtime classification, and the documents that sit beside it.

Event Liability Insurance Laws

Check event liability coverage, additional insureds, certificates of insurance and venue contracts.

Expense Reimbursement Laws

Check whether a jurisdiction requires employers to reimburse employees for business expenses.

Fund Formation Laws

Find applicable rules and source-backed guidance on fund formation.

Hiring Employees

Prepare country-specific employment terms and onboarding decisions.

International Agreements

What the text of agreements between governments says, how it changed from earlier instruments, and whether it is in force.

Invention Assignment Laws

Review employee invention ownership, assignment limits, exclusions, and required notices.

Lease Agreements

Property categories and selected federal public-housing lease requirements.

Legal Due Diligence Laws

Find applicable rules and source-backed guidance on legal due diligence.

Non-Compete Laws

Check restrictions on non-competes, non-solicitation, and other post-employment obligations.

Nonprofit For Profit Subsidiaries Laws

Keep the taxable subsidiary of a 501(c)(3) organization separate, and fund it and its grants correctly.

Nonprofit Governance Laws

Review New York nonprofit bylaw authority, board decisions, and member approvals.

School Governance Laws

Review governance requirements for New York Regents-chartered education corporations.

Startup Financing

Review financing economics, closing conditions and companion documents across YC SAFEs, NVCA stock purchase agreements and the NVCA charter.

Stay-or-Pay Laws

Review employee repayment obligations, training costs, and restrictions on departure-related charges.

Ticketed Event Sales Tax Laws

Check when event tickets, food and drink are taxable, who must collect, and when to register.

Trade Secrets Laws

Review trade-secret protection and the duration of confidentiality obligations.

Wage & Hour Laws

Find jurisdiction-specific guidance on pay, working time, and employee notice requirements.

Working with Outside Counsel

Working with and transitioning between outside counsel — files, work product, and privilege across the handoff.