Feb. 1: O'Brien Braun P.C. Supports The WILD SummitJanuary 22nd, 2013 11:35am - Posted By: Fern O'Brien
O'Brien Braun P.C. is proud to sponsor The WILD (WOMEN INSPIRING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT) Summit, Feb 1, 2013. The Women’s Council, a part of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, is hosting this event. Shelly Lazarus, executive chairwoman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide will keynote The WILD Summit. More than 20 women industry leaders will discuss exciting and timely topics among today’s growth industries, including Natural Foods, Health and Wellness, Education, Social Ventures and Sustainability, and Marketing and Communications. WILD organizers expect 350 women business lea ... Read More...Posted in: News and InformationView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, Facebook, Google +Government Crackdown on Independent Contractor ClassificationNovember 10th, 2011 11:37am - Posted By: Fern O'Brien
California has just upped the ante with its new worker misclassification law (SB 459), scheduled to go into effect in January 1, 2012. This may be a harbinger of things to come as governments are actively seeking more effective ways to collect taxes. The new law includes the following: · Prohibits the willful misclassification of wo ... Read More...Posted in: Employment, News and InformationView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, Facebook, Google +Trademark AlertOctober 3rd, 2011 11:06am - Posted By: Fern O'Brien
Protect Your Trademarks From The New .XXX Domain A new generic top level domain (gTLD), .XXX, has been approved for websites featuring adult content. It will be available to the general public starting December 6, 2011. In order to protect your trademark from being used by an unauthorized third party for an adult entertainment website, you can file an “opt-out” application with participating domain name registrars. The "opt-out" period ends on October 28, 2011. Your “opt-out” application will prohibit anyone else from registering "yourtrademark.xxx.” ***It is important to protect the integrity of your brand by fili ... Read More...Posted in: News and InformationView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, Facebook, Google +O'Brien Braun Attorneys to be Featured at 27th Annual Natural Products Expo EastAugust 25th, 2011 10:51am - Posted By: Fern O'Brien
Debbie's presentation, Ensuring Food Safety for Manufacturers: Simple Steps, will be held on Friday, September 23, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., and will focus on the new Food Safety Modernization Act passed by Congress this past year and how it will impact growers and producers of natural and organic products. Fern will participate in a panel discussion, Building an International Brand: What You Need to Kn ... Read More...Posted in: News and InformationView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, Facebook, Google +Being Social, Staying Legal: Policies for Social NetworkingAugust 16th, 2011 9:27am - Posted By: Fern O'Brien
In just the last few years social media has transitioned from being a purely social activity to being an integral part of most companies’ annual marketing plans. And for good reason: social media has enabled companies to build and expand the reach of their brands in a targeted, cost-effective manner. Because of their social roots, it is sometimes easy to forget that when businesses use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like, they still must comply with the same laws that govern businesses generally, including employment law, defamation and slander, copyright infringement and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules and regulations concerning advertising. Franchisors must not only remain in compliance themselves but they need to ens ... Read More...Posted in: News and InformationView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, Facebook, Google + |
The federal and state governments have been increasing their enforcement efforts against companies who are classifying their workers as independent contractors when they are actually employees. The result of the enforcement on employers is paying all of the back taxes, including penalties and interest, from the time the worker began working for the employer.
Fern O'Brien and Debbie Huttner, attorneys with O’Brien Braun P.C., will be featured speakers at Natural Products Expo East. Expo East, now in its 27th year, is a leading trade show for natural and organic products companies, held September 21-24, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland.