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Legal Foundations: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Working With a Business Lawyer
Not sure where to start with a business lawyer? Begin with your client agreement, then your website legals and team agreements. Here's the step-by-step.
Coaches, Check Your Contracts: Unfair Contract Terms Explained
Since November 2023, unfair terms in standard form contracts are illegal, with penalties up to $50 million. Here's what coaches need to check, starting with termination clauses.
Interior Designers, Are Your Contracts Still Protecting You? Unfair Contract Terms Explained
Since November 2023, unfair terms in standard form contracts are illegal, with penalties up to $50 million. Here's what interior designers and stylists need to check, starting with cancellation clauses.
Legal Contract Essentials for Business Coaches in Australia
What can you promise, what belongs in your coaching agreement, can clients sign online, and how do you end a coaching contract well? Everything business coaches need to know.
What Legal Documents Does an Interior Designer Need?
From your design agreement to site visits, insurance, website terms and privacy, here are the legal documents and protections every interior design business in Australia needs.
Legal Essentials for Creatives: Contracts, Copyright and Getting Paid
Graphic designers, copywriters, photographers and other creatives: here's what you need to get sorted, from your client agreement and processes to who owns your work and protecting it online.
Legals By Design®: My Signature Approach to Legal Documents
Legals By Design® is my signature approach to creating legal documents that are tailored to your business, written in plain English, reflect your brand and are set up to be enforceable.
Navigating the Work Christmas Party: A Legal Reality Check for Australian Employers
Your end-of-year party is still a work event, and your legal duties come along for the ride. Here's my reality check on alcohol, behaviour, Secret Santa and getting everyone home safely.
Do You Need an NDA? Non-Disclosure Agreements in Australia Explained
Sharing your ideas, plans or client information with someone outside your business? Here's when you need an NDA, when you don't, and what a good one covers.
Australian Consumer Law for Service Providers: What You Need to Know
The Australian Consumer Law isn't just for big retailers. If you sell services, it applies to you, and getting it right is what makes your terms enforceable.
Launching an Online Course? The Terms and Conditions You Need to Protect Your Business
Creating a course is hard work. Here are the terms and conditions you need to protect your content, make sure you get paid and handle refunds fairly.
How to Professionally End Client Relationships: Boundaries, Complaints and Exits
Strong client relationships need clear boundaries, and sometimes they need to end. Here's how to handle complaints well and exit a client relationship professionally.
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