Mind Your Business

AGREEMENTS, whether or not they are written down, form the core of every transaction. You make countless unwritten agreements in any average working day. You buy coffee; you share a taxi; you make travel arrangements. Agreements are always being discussed; you negotiate terms; you engage in commercial relationships.

These layers of contractual transactions number in the millions each day, and form the financial backbone of this country.

CONTRACT LAW, THE LAW OF BUSINESS:

provides security for the legal obligations that contracting parties have to each other;

provides insurance that parties will receive the benefits of their transaction;

provides protection from injury or damage resulting from the transaction.

Because agreements are subject to individual interpretation, a lawyer often becomes necessary --- to make sure that people receive their intended benefit, and that they suffer no harm.

Builders, Farmers, Merchants, Shop Owners and others have found help over the years

by calling me when a deal just didn't sound right,

didn't look right,

didn't feel right,

didn't work right.

Sorting out all the issues, and making the transaction work --- that's what I do.

THE BASICS OF BUSINESS

This country has always depended on healthy commerce, people exchanging their labor or their knowledge for things they need. A person with an idea for something that may support them and their family develops a "business" -- starting with a plan, and then committing to make that plan work. Over time, other people may be needed to assist in the business; this may lead to a need for more production space; items and expertise are being bought and sold to supply the business, and to produce and market the product or service.

Countless business owners, employees, landowners, merchants, craft workers, laborers all find work and reward through the operation of this simple business model that lies at the heart of this country's economic life.

I accept and welcome the opportunity to contribute to healthy and responsible business.