🤷🏻♀️ Have you ever wondered why some contracts require initials? Does your current client contract have a spot on each page that the couple initials? Is that necessary or is it overkill? In this week’s episode we talk about the purpose behind contract signatures and intialing. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R-fjuz4Q-KQ
🤷🏻♀️ Your online reputation is critical to generating leads. So what happens when a disgruntled client or even a competitor leaves a bad or fake review? Can you sue Google (or Yelp or Wedding Wire for that matter) for publishing that garbage? In this week’s video, we talk about who is responsible for defamatory content published to the internet. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7XuhOGttxU
🤷🏻♀️ We might not be out of the woods yet. In this week’s video, we talk about whether you should continue to include a “Covid Clause” in your contract. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/u4c4pcGS-88
🤷🏻♀️ Your momma always said there was the right way, the wrong way, and her way to do things. Unfortunately, a judge or jury may not really care about the way your mom amends contracts. That’s why in this week’s video, we talk about amending contracts in the right way under the law! Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BFfegm-p2cc
🤷🏻♀️ We don’t want our contracts to be unwieldy messes. But, we also want to make sure the clients (and any future Judge) understands the parties’ obligations. Does this mean your proposal language (specific to the event), service description (your biz policies), and contract boilerplate go into one document? If not, what gets signed? In this week’s video, we talk about best practices for making sure that everyone is on the same sheet of music. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.b...
🤷🏻♀️ Lawsuit prevention often starts with your own behavior. In fact, your conduct when things go south can be the difference between whether your liabilities are OK or potentially catastrophic. But why? Damages under breach of contract are typically on the lower end of the spectrum. Damages from torts (think infliction of distress and fraud) can lead to huge verdicts. In this week’s video, find out how to stop nip these lawsuits in the bud. Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X...
🤷🏻♀️ Do you regularly conduct business or book events in states other than the state your LLC is registered in? If so, you may need to consider registering your business as a foreign entity in that state. Why? Because Big Brother might come and get you. In this week’s video, we talk about what it means to do business in another state, when registration in another state is a good idea, and what happens when you don’t.
🤷🏻♀️ Do you share ownership of your LLC with others? Weddings can bring out the worst in your clients, and wedding businesses can bring out the worst in their owners. So, it’s important for you to think about what protections you have in place for when you and your fellow business owners do not agree or do not get along. In this week’s video, terms for your operating agreement that address fights among LLC member owners!
🤷🏻♀️ As wedding professionals, we have a duty to take reasonable steps to ensure a safe, covid-free event. But is it reasonable to make your employes or contractors get vaccinated? What does the law say about that? In this week’s video, we welcome employment lawyer Manori de Silva to talk about whether requiring vaccinations is OK under the law. Manori de Silva: https://www.taylorenglish.com/people-Manori-de-Silva.html
🤷🏻♀️ Don’t like confrontation? You don’t always have to fight your legal battles in court. In fact, you can require your disputes be mediated. That means making a good faith effort to resolve your differences using a trained mediator. In this week’s video, find out if this may be right for you!
🤷🏻♀️ As a designer (wedding, stationary, invitation, venue, etc), you put soooo much work into the development of the wedding tone and theme. But what happens when you are putting the finishing touches to the design and the client wants you to start from scratch? Can you charge that that? In this week’s video, we talk about contract clauses so you can get paid when clients go from Star Trek to Star Wars…..
🤷🏻♀️ You’ve signed up the client and have been providing your professional services. The client calls you up and wants a change. That’s OK with you and you say so. But is that conversation binding in a court of law? We talk all about that in this week’s video!
🤷🏻♀️ Canva is great for generating social media posts! But, if you are using Canva for any long-term brand creation, you may want to think again. What you create in Canva often does not belong to you! In this week’s video, we talk about trademarks, intellectual property, and Canva’s terms of service with attorney Antonella Colella! Check out Antonella --> Facebook: www.facebook.com/colellalegalstudio Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonellacolella/...
🤷🏻♀️ In the age of Covid, anything is possible. For real. Recently, a wedding professional told me that she had discovered her contract for sell online. That’s right, the couple, rather than fess up that they wanted to back out, decided to put all the vendors that they had hired up for sell on a social media marketplace. Here’s the kicker→ FOR A PROFIT. But, is this legal? Can our clients simply have some other couple step into their place? In this week’s episode, we talk all about about the ...
🤷🏻♀️ Often, I see wedding professionals with a contract term in which the couple agrees to let that professional use the primary photographer’s images. In today’s video, we find out about how this is a risk for the wedding professional.
🤷🏻♀️ The main reason to form an LLC is to keep the liabilities of your company from becoming your personal liabilities. In other words, instead of a loss or judgement coming from your personal bank account (or stuff-->car, home, etc), the loss stops at the assets of the LLC. However, there are minimum requirements for the benefits of the LLC to work. Some behaviors though, can really sink you. In this video, we talk about risky activities of single-member LLC owners.
🤷🏻♀️ The laws and regulations surrounding Covid-19 are more fluid than Frosty the Snowman’s July vacation to Splash World. In this week’s video, recorded live on Clubhouse, we talk about keeping wedding guests’ protected health information safe, avoiding lawsuits based on invasion of privacy, and how Florida is an outlier.
🤷🏻♀️ As a wedding business owner, there is no shortage of client contract templates for purchase and download. But is a template appropriate for your business? Based on your operations and your needs, is even the best template going to provide you with the necessary amount of protection? In this week's video we talk about 4 considerations to make before buying a contract template.
🤷🏻♀️ As Obi-Wan once said, “there are alternatives to fighting.” Negotiating with an angry client, whenever possible, can be the difference between a few bucks or a couple sleepless nights and your reputation being permanently tarnished. In this week’s video, we talk about some key factors when negotiating disputes with clients.
🤷🏻♀️ Danger! Accepting wedding guests' private health information may get you in trouble if you are not careful with how the data is stored (and used). In this video, learn how Federal regulations like HIPAA, state-specific rights of privacy, and Covid vaccine information converge into a regulatory soup with healthcare compliance attorney Wedad Suleiman. Wedad Suleiman https://www.chapmanlawgroup.com/attorney/wedadsuleiman/
🤷🏻♀️ Congratulations! You’ve decided to go out and slay some wedding business for yourself. After doing your research, you’re ready to spend some of your limited resources on legal services. Not so fast, buddy. You might not need to. In this week’s video, we talk about what NOT to invest your money or time into.
🤷🏻♀️ States are opening up and over 20% of our population have been full vaccinated. But what does this mean for the future? In this weeks video, four things that you will want to think about for your client contract in the months and even years ahead.
🤷🏻♀️ Modern music is almost always protected by copyright law. In order to play music at your venue (DJ, live music, or even the radio!), to place music in your video, or put music on your website requires certain permissions or licenses. But don’t worry, we got you covered. In this week’s video we welcome entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark @gordonfiremark to talk about using live or recorded music at an event or in promotion of the event. For more information, check out: Gordon Firemark: h...
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🤷🏻♀️ Thinking about running a contest on your IG or Facebook? Achtung, baby, there are rules and laws you have to follow. In this week’s video, we welcome guest Ashley Basta of Creatives Learn Law to help us understand how to run a contest that is both compliant and that won’t get you thrown in the slammer. DISCLAIMER: Content of the video is not intended as legal advice. For more information: Ashley Basta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPEiK7v9s8 Creatives Learn Law: https://www.creatives...
🤷🏻♀️ Working a wedding abroad? Then your contract needs a passport. Say what? In this week’s video, we talk about contract considerations for destination weddings. From venue selection, to choice of law, to arbitration, you don’t want to miss it!
🤷🏻♀️ Have you ever worked hours and hours on a proposal only to have the potential client shop it around for a better deal or simply take the ideas and do it themselves? Is there a legal way to protect the blood, sweat, and tears contained in your event proposal? You’re in luck, because there is. We talk all about this and more in this week’s video.
🤷🏻♀️ Indemnity or indemnification is a contract term in which one party agrees to be responsible for the liabilities of another. In other words, one party is agreeing to be responsible for any harms or losses that may arise from a certain scenario. But how far does this go? Can you have your client indemnify you? This week in the podcast, I try to explain all this and more without putting you to sleep!
🤷🏻♀️ Pepsi or Coke. Crunchy or soft shell taco. Reels or Tik Tok. Telling the client about commissions on vendor invoices or not. I feel like folks are all in one camp or the other. There’s no inbetween. So let’s work this out together. This week on the podcast, we unpack the legal ramifications of planners, coordinators, and consultants accepting kickbacks.
Making videographers and filmmakers cough up money for a permit is actually unconstitutional according to a recent United States District Court opinion. So does that mean you’re free to film at the Grand Canyon without any worries? Maybe, maybe not. This week on the podcast, we welcome Robert Corn-Revere, the attorney representing the indie filmmaker responsible for the case that brought down this law. Opinion HERE: https://nppa.org/sites/default/files/Price%20v%20Barr%20opinion.pdf Robert Corn-...
