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From Hobby to Business: The Case for Treating a Content Career as a Company

The FTC, Meta, and the IRS already treat a monetizing creator as a business: the entity that protects personal assets, the salary rules the IRS enforces, the music-licensing suits already filed against brands, and the contract terms that decide what an audience is actually worth.

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What Does a Fractional General Counsel Cost?

The numbers, from national compensation surveys and billing-rate data, are only part of the answer. What they miss: a lawyer who knows your business, catches problems while they’re cheap, and sets a price you know before the work begins.

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Why Every Business Needs Its Own Independent Contractor Agreement

The party that drafts the contract wins most of it. Supreme Court authority on forum and fee clauses, and the research on first offers and status-quo bias, explain why signing the other side’s form means starting every deal from behind.

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Handshakes vs. Operating Agreements: The Case Against Running on Trust

New York law requires every LLC to adopt a written operating agreement, and the default rules that govern without one (on voting, exit, death, and deadlock) are terms no founding team would ever choose on purpose.

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Flat Fees vs. Billable Hours: The Case Against Hourly Billing

Why the billable hour fails clients (according to the ABA’s own commission, ethics regulators across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court, and decades of scholarship) and why a fixed price, agreed before the work begins, fixes what the hour cannot.

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