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Palm Desert Area Chamber of Commerce Business Breakfast
Francine D. Ward from the Law Offices of Francine Denise Ward, will be the featured guest speaker at the upcoming PDACC Business Breakfast. The topic is common legal mistakes and keeping you and your business protected! The event is Sponsored by Indian Wells Tennis Garden/BNP Paribas Open – information and tennis tickets will be given away at this gathering. Join us on Valentine’s Day, February 14th 7am-8:30am at Desert Willow: 38995 Desert Willow Dr $20 Members/$30 Guests. Please RSVP 760.346.6111 or Info@pdacc.org. The Five-Star Palm Desert Area Chamber can also be reached at www.pdacc.org or on Facebook.
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TITLE:
Common Legal Mistakes EVERY Small Business Owner Makes!
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DESCRIPTION:
You are a smart, savvy business owner. You know how to run a successful business, but you hate the details. The legal stuff either bores you, confuses you, or makes you mad—either way you prefer to ignore it. But DON’T! The #1 mistake made by many busy business owners is to ignore the legal stuff. In this session, we’ll explore 5 common mistakes made by small business owners and ways to avoid them.
LEARNING OBJEVTIVES:
- Identify 5 common mistakes
- Explore tips on how to avoid the mistakes
BIO:
A 1989 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Francine Ward is an intellectual property law attorney, with a focus on copyrights, trademarks, publishing, and social media law. She helps small business entrepreneurs protect their valuable creative content, products, business brand, designs, logos, trade secrets, and company structure. She also counsels authors on how to get a good book deal and how to avoid social media legal landmines. A frequent speaker on legal issues and a popular legal commentator, Francine can be found tweeting on Twitter (www.Twitter.com/francineward), posting on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/Francineward), chatting in groups in LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/trademarklawyer ), and uploading posts to her Blog (www.francinewardblog.com). And, you may even find her having a cup of virtual tea in her Second Life law office (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ginny/236.521240/171.452835/23.451164/?title=Ginny ).
Francine D. Ward, Esq.
Business | Intellectual Property Attorney
Mill Valley Office:
775 E. Blithedale, Suite 325
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 389-0975
(415) 389-0976 [fax]
44489 Town Center Way
Suite D-168
Palm Desert, CA 92260
760.636.0066
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