Michael Agresti, a partner with Marsh Schaaf law firm, provides insights for business owners and professionals on how to best use legal services to protect their companies and their assets. Michael gives examples of business cases from his 22 years of experience that may help you as a business owner or executive to head off liability, risk and litigation. Some of Michael's insights include proper use of contracts, documentation strategies for protection and how to protect your intellectual property. These and more topics are discussed as the Confidence series explores how to grow the worth of your business by looking beyond profit and loss at more internal functions of a business including using a tune up of your company's legal standing in order to protect your assets.

0:00 Introduction to Show

1:00 Intro to Michael Agresti and Outside General Counsel

4:15 Use the Contract Your Lawyer Creates and Reference it Frequently

6:21 The Challenges of Verbal Contracts

8:05 Modern Additions to Contracts

9:32 The Annual Legal Check Up

13:30 Employment Contracts

16:52 Intellectual Property and Patents

23:10 Outsourcing Vs. Risk

25:17 Decreasing Daily Risk of a Business

27:16 Slip and Fall Documentation

31:57 Annual Training

33:10 LLC Vs. Personal Liability 

39:29 Review and Wrap Up

Michael's email: [email protected], phone: (814) 456-5301

Website: https://www.marshlaw.com/

Dr. Lisa Miller email: [email protected], phone (814) 812-1856

Website: www.resourceandgovernance.com

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provide specific business or legal advice or recommendations for any individual or company.

RGC and Dr. Lisa Miller are not responsible for statements made by guests.

Marsh Schaaf Law Firm is not affiliated with RGC.

RGC Worthy Podcasts: Perspective Series: Ron Vinyard, a LPL Financial Advisor with Legacy Financial Consulting Services, describes his extensive military service and how it has given him a unique perspective and a tremendous set of skills to utilize with his clients. You'll hear Dr. Lisa Miller and Ron discuss risk mitigation, strategic planning, relationship building, and trust as they relate to both being in command in the military and helping people through devising a financial strategy for their family. Explore the parallels and strengths of his careers and how they complement each other tremendously. Thanks to Ron for his service in the Army for 14 years! 

Ron Vinyard email: [email protected]

website: www.lferie.com

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website: www.resourceandgovernance.com

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Thanks to CAM, Erie, PA.

Legacy Financial Consulting Services is not an affiliate company of LPL Financial. 

The opinions voiced in this show are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. To determine which investment(s) may be appropriate for you, consult with your attorney, accountant, and financial advisor or tax advisor prior to investing. 

This installment in the Confidence Series of the RGC Worthy Podcasts looks at increasing the Worth of a business through the lens of Wealth Management. Christopher Swink is a Senior Director with BNY Wealth Management and is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) in Tampa, Florida. We discuss his experience leading business owners and their families through the important, and often overlooked, wealth planning step of the M&A process and how to be better prepared for this life changing event. Christopher discusses his focus on pre-transaction planning, and post-sale lifestyle needs, the importance of the family as a stakeholder and the importance of experienced and collaborative advisors in order to maximize the selling price. Whether you are considering a sale, or are in the process of selling your company, this episode is an important step in your preparation and success in selling your business.

Christopher Swink email: [email protected]

website: www.bnymellonwealth.com/business-owner

Dr. Lisa Miller email: [email protected]

website: www.resourceandgovernance.com

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Emery Ellinger founded Aberdeen Advisors as a resource for those selling their businesses so that they can have a successful sale of their business and have the highest possible sale price. Emery and Aberdeen Advisors have represented sellers such as Florida's TradeWinds Resort and former Heisman runner up Casey Weldon. Dr. Lisa Miller of RGC and Emery discuss the factors that Aberdeen Advisors take into consideration when setting the valuation of a business that they represent in a sale. Aberdeen's long history of high sale values and successful sales becomes your guide for preparing to enter the market. Dr. Miller discusses how refining business operations and developing management teams allows RGC to help you grow your confidence in your business valuation. This podcast is a great look across all of the factors that go into valuation and is the perfect entry into the ways to start preparing now, as a business owner, should you plan to sell your business anywhere from 2-10 years out. A must-listen for those business owners who realize that "retiring someday" is fast approaching.

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The Worthy Podcasts of RGC: Resource and Governance Consulting. This is the second episode of the Perspective Series. This episode includes an interview between Dr. Lisa Miller, Founder and CEO of RGC, and Evaguel Rhysing, Founder and CEO of United Aircraft Technologies. They discuss the prior careers of Eva and how she went from teaching English-as-a Second-Language to owning a company that supplies aircraft parts to the airline industry and the military. 

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In this episode of the RGC Worthy Podcasts Perspective Series, Amanda Kochirka, Program Director at the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership goes through her career journey from working in her family business to e-marketing professional, to now developing the programs that the Chamber offers. Listen to her story of how her prior careers inform the work she does as Program Director and how her professional worth has increased as she has grown in her careers. 

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Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership Website: https://www.eriepa.com

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This is the introduction to the Worthy Podcasts from RGC: Resource and Governance Consulting. In this first episode of the Perspective Series, Dr. Lisa Miller, CEO and Owner of RGC, will discuss how her prior careers in healthcare and higher education and her PhD work in Organizational Leadership have given her a unique perspective that now informs her work as a consultant helping CEO's and business owners build the worth of their companies. 

Watch for upcoming episodes of the Perspective series as well as the Confidence series, both in the Worthy Podcasts of RGC. 

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RGC Resource and Governance Consulting Worthy Podcasts: Confidence Series looks at the worth of a business by breaking it down into two halves. The first half is the dollars, cents, ratios, profit, loss, etc. The second half will be explored here, in the Confidence Series, and is comprised of the internal operations of a business and how sustainable those processes are over time. This is particularly important for those who are looking to buy or sell a business as well as those who are trying to decrease the risk inherent in a company that is overly reliant on any one individual. Over the course of this series, we will talk with a variety of professionals who deal with the worth of businesses and look at this other side of value and how vital it is to businesses overall. 

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