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The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) applies to all businesses, governments and governmental agencies, regardless of size. The ADA requires businesses and governmental agencies to make their places of business and information about their goods and services “accessible” to persons with disabilities, whether those disabilities are visual, auditory, physical, neurological or cognitive in nature and […]

Word of Mouth Advertising Online reviews and blog posts are the 21st century equivalent of word-of-mouth advertising, with one enormous difference.  What goes online, (mostly) stays online, more or less forever. On the plus side, online reviews on Google, Yelp, Facebook, Manta, Foursquare and Angie’s list, not to mention the innumerable blogs that critique everything […]

You wouldn’t drive a car without insurance, would you?  Maybe you would, if you thought you could get away with it.  But, when your car is rea-ended, or you rear-end another car, you’ll be weeping while you write the checks to pay for the damage, and the fine for driving while uninsured. No one plans […]

Sometimes.  Maybe.  It depends. A trademark is a source identifier; its purpose is to inform the purchaser of goods or services of the source of those goods or services. A design can be a trademark, but not when it is decorative ornamentation on the item itself.  I see this with clients who want to register […]

On day one of his administration, Donald Trump made good on his promise to limit immigration to the US.  Initially, the focus was on illegal immigration—visitors who overstayed their visas and those who crossed the border to the US without any visa at all. That focus has now expanded to include legal immigration, including by […]