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What To Do When Your Business Hires Employee
Five Important Documents Your New Employees Should Sign Before They Start Work When your San Diego business hires a new employee, it can be tempting to have them dive right in and get to work. Before they can get started, however, you must have them fill in and sign a...
What to Do if an Employee Reports a Workplace Injury
For San Diego small business owners, there are few things more frightening than having an employee receive an injury on the job. Unfortunately, this nightmare scenario happens every day in factories, restaurants, and construction sites throughout California. If one of...
Five Reasons Why Your Small Business Needs a Lawyer
When you start a new business in San Diego, you hope that everything will run smoothly for many years to come. Unfortunately, things don't always go according to plan. Before long, you will almost inevitably begin to run into issues and disputes that you could not...
Five Questions You Cannot Ask During an Interview
When preparing to interview a potential new hire, it is vital that you have a list of questions that you want to ask prepared in advance. However, if you want to avoid legal issues and accusations of discrimination, it is equally important to make note of some...
Six Things to Check Before Hiring a Business Attorney
Hiring a business attorney can be a very overwhelming process. When searching for an attorney in San Diego to represent your company, you should not settle for the first law firm that you come across. Instead, you should try to find one that is a good fit for your...
Five Steps to Take Before Hiring Your First Employee
If your San Diego small business has begun to grow, you may be thinking about hiring your first employee. Before you do, however, there are a few important steps that you must take, such as: Making Sure That You Are Financially Ready to Hire Hiring an employee is...
How California Small Business Owners Can Avoid Piercing the Corporate Veil
When you first started your company, you most likely spent some time working with a small business lawyer in California to figure out how to protect yourself from the organization's liabilities. This practice is known as creating a corporate veil. Of course, if you...
How To Protect Your Nonprofit From Controversial Donors
In recent years, nonprofits in California and throughout the United States have begun paying closer attention to the identities of their donors. In many cases, they do this because they want to make sure that their organization is not accepting money from anyone whose...
Nikki Semanchik
Founding Attorney
Nikki has been practicing law since 2011. She founded SLG in 2017 with the goal of assisting Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists & Families realize their dreams.