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Corporate Counsel

Sinclair Legal Counsel provides an array of services for sole proprietors and small business owners, including business counsel, contract review and negotiations, dispute negotiations and settlements, and corporate formation and administration. Sinclair Legal Counsel represents businesses located in California or doing business throughout California, from San Diego to San Francisco.

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Incorporation

"Should I be a sole proprietor or incorporate?"

"What steps do I need to take to start my business?"

"What are the rules governing corporations?"

These are the questions that small businesses will face through its inception. We provide guidance to businesses regardless of size, assist with the incorporation documentation, and provide ongoing support for observing required legal formalities.

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Trademarks

Have you settled on your branding and want to protect your trademark on a state and federal level? Trademark filing and monitoring services are available and general assistance provided in determining if your proposed mark will infringe upon someone else's mark.

Compliance

  The world in which we all live is vast and businesses frequently encounter a wide variety of statutes and regulations that are evolving. As the general public focuses on issues of employee rights, privacy rights, and other, industry specific issues, business owners often find themselves trying to decipher laws and rules they were unaware of. Compliance assistance is here, be it in the form of answering general questions, to legislative updates when California or the federal government updates the rules within your industry.

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Negotiations

Business owners frequently find themselves entering into contract negotiations, questioning their goals, the goals of the other side, and trying to ascertain a fair outcome. Or, they're trying to resolve an issue with an employee or independent contractor who believes they were treated unfairly and desire settlement over litigation. To that end, negotiation support is here for you, if it's just sitting in the background and provide general assistance, or handling the matter fully and letting you know the proposed outcome.

Trusts, Wills, and Estates

From power of attorney and health care directives, to trusts, wills, and estate planning, most individuals look to plan for the future and prepare for the unexpected. Whether its contingency planning or preparing the documents for when the inevitable happens, we can assist.

Website Support

Platform Support

A number of small businesses are born from an idea, to provide a service, via software, to resolve one or more difficulties people or other businesses face in the world. Having worked with several providers of such platforms, I can assist in general support, conduct research into platform legality, or assist with specific troubleshooting issues.

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Privacy Policies

As state and federal government entities probe into consumer privacy rights and how businesses handle information they either deliberately acquire, or inadvertently acquire, one requirement has emerged: a website must have a privacy policy that clearly explains how data is gathered, used, and destroyed. Even applications must have policies that comply with U.S. federal law, and increasingly, individual state laws, like the California Consumer Privacy Act, a law the affects many businesses in and conducting business around, the State of California.

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I can assist with drawing up an individualized policy, suited to your business, taking into account what methodology is utilized in acquiring data, its aggregation, how it is disseminated, and appropriate streamlining actions to take to ensure sensitive data is destroyed once it is no longer required. 

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Terms & Conditions

What rights does your business grant consumers who visit? Restrictions? What about account holders? What services can they receive, what have they agreed to, and what can you hold them to if there are difficulties?

I have drafted numerous terms & conditions, from SaaS entities, informational websites, to social networking websites. When a business requires assistance, either your existing Terms & Conditions can be modified, or a new one can be started from scratch and designed to fit the specific and unique needs of your business.