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U.S. Citizenship: When Green Card Holders Should Apply
Applying for U.S. Citizenship: When Green Card Holders Should File and When They Should Wait
Most green card holders know they can apply for U.S. citizenship after five years, or after three if they are married to a U.S. citizen,…
Buying a Business in the U.S., Part 5: Due Diligence
Due diligence is the part of an acquisition where a buyer gets to look under the hood of a seller business. In this exercise, the buyer figures out—or tries to figure out—whether the business on offer is the business it…
Denver’s Waste No More Rules Hit Struggling Restaurants
Denver’s Waste No More Rules Put More Pressure on Struggling Restaurants
On September 15, 2025, the Denver City Council approved updates to Denver’s Universal Recycling and Composting Ordinance. The revisions followed a voter-approved measure that passed with 70% approval from…
Colorado Can Have Higher Tipped Minimum Wages OR a Tipping Culture. Not Both.
Politicians and advocacy groups have spent years debating what restaurant workers should earn. That debate is not going away. But I think we have spent so much time arguing over the hourly wage that we have avoided a more fundamental…
Taking Your Restaurant International: A Legal Guide to Global Restaurant Expansion
Taking Your Restaurant International: A Legal Guide to Global Restaurant Expansion
International restaurant expansion often generates legal problems before anyone believes there is much legal work to do. A team finds a location and negotiates the lease before confirming that…
Oregon State Court Civil Discovery: No Interrogatories, No Routine Expert Reports. Litigate Accordingly.
Oregon Civil Discovery: No Interrogatories, No Routine Expert Reports. Litigate Accordingly.
Some of the most expensive mistakes in Oregon civil litigation are made in the first sixty days, and good lawyers make them by waiting. They wait for initial disclosures…
Trademark Registration in Central America: How to Build a Country-by-Country Filing Strategy
Registering Trademarks in Central America: How to Build a Country-by-Country Filing Strategy
A U.S. consumer-products company appoints one distributor to sell its products in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It registers its trademark in Guatemala, where sales will begin, and…
United States Trademark Ownership Errors: How Small Filing Mistakes Become Expensive Problems
United States Trademark Ownership Errors: How Small Filing Mistakes Become Expensive Problems
Ownership problems involving United States trademark applications and registrations rarely announce themselves when an application is filed. They sit in the USPTO record until a sale, financing, enforcement…
Buying a Business in the U.S., Part 4: Letters of Intent (LOIs)
Buying a Business in the U.S., Part 4: Letters of Intent (LOIs)
In business purchase negotiations, parties often execute an early‑stage document called a letter of intent (“LOI”). You may also see it called a term sheet or even a…