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Contract Disputes and Watermelons
Something to Think About When You’re Chin Deep in a Slice of Watermelon It’s almost time for our annual 4th of July festivities. Aside from watching fireworks, one of the biggest Independence Day traditions is cookout/picnic complete with fresh watermelon. If you’re...
Potentially Lethal Legal Combinations in Contracts
Another Reason for Fava Beans to Freak You Out The season for fava beans is now - from the spring to summer time. If you’re like me, when you hear the words “fava beans” you think of the iconic quote from Silence of the Lambs where Hannibal Lecter stares eerily at...
CAN-SPAM and Canned Spam
Tasty Spam Versus Scary SPAM Recently I was watching a rerun of Bizarre Foods: Washington, D.C. with my family. On the show, host Andrew Zimmern, eats strange and wonderful foods from all over the world. In this particular episode, he stopped off at various food...
The Blame the Bean Defense Doesn’t Work
A seed is a seed is a seed. . .unless the seed has a lawyer After having indulged in all the heavy BBQ from spring cookouts and thinking of the looming hot weather approaching, I’m craving something light - a little sushi with edamame. If you’re not familiar with it,...
Shhh – Don’t Tell Anyone. It’s a Trade Secret.
You Probably Won't Find Trade Secrets at an Estate Sale Recently, Cliff Kluge, a Georgia antiques dealer, claimed to have found the secret recipe to Coca-Cola. He found the “secret formula” in an old box of papers from an estate sale of a Georgia chemist. The...
What Patents Have to Do with Chocolate Chips
In Honor of National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. . . In the 1930s, Ruth Graves Wakefield was in her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts when she made culinary history. One story goes that Ruth ran out of baker’s chocolate when she was making her chocolate cookies....
Why Starting an LLC is Like Throwing a BBQ
A Rose Is a Rose By Any Other Name. That's Not The Case With BBQ and LLCs You know it’s truly spring (despite the past few intermittent bursts of winter) when you step outside and get that mouthwatering aroma of grills and smokers getting back to work doing what they...
Creating Legal Partnerships
What Does a Wreath of Flowers Have to do with Your Business? The first of May is May Day, which is Lei Day in Hawai'i. While it's never been made an official state holiday, Lei Day has been commemorated in Hawai'i every May 1st since 1928. It includes the tradition of...
Exploring The Forgotten Zones
Snowy white frost is all over my freezer, making my frozen foods an icy mystery. I sigh as I dig out my directions on how to speed clean your freezer in 20 minutes (yes, it can be done) and get to work and ask myself how I could let it go for so long. I'm always...
The Next Time You Ask for a Coke Be Sure To Say a Little Thank You to a Couple of Sneaky Lawyers
How Two Crafy Lawyers and a Shrewd Contract Took Coke From 9 (Yes 9) to 1.7 Billion Servings a Day In other parts of the country when people go out to eat they might ask their server, "What kind of soda do you have?" In Texas, they ask, "What kind of Cokes do you...
Birthday Freebies Are Like Internet Legal Forms
Too Much Cake and Too Many Freebies May Be Great Today, But You Won't Be Too Happy Tomorrow Last week I had the good fortune to celebrate 5 birthdays in one day. As with most birthday celebrations, they involved food. In addition to all the birthday cake (and one...
Why Easter Eggs Are Like The Series LLC
A Series LLC Keeps Your Eggs From Getting Scrambled When You Keep Them All in One Basket We’ve just finished Easter with its time-honored tradition of the Easter Egg Hunt; creatively decorating our eggs with a variety of dyes, decals, embellishments, and crayons; then...