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Legal Information for U.S. Organizations (Businesses and Nonprofits)
Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD
Sections of This Topic Include
Advertising
/ Marketing Laws ("truth in advertising", etc.)
Basics
About U.S. Law
Business
Contracts
Employee
Law (major topics and laws, employee contracts, at-will, noncompete,
etc.)
Federal
Charter Documents - U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
General
Resources (sites with multiple areas of legal information)
Lawyers
(getting, using, power of attorney, etc.)
Libraries,
Directories and Other References
Nonprofit-Specific
Legal Information (NOTE: most other topics apply to nonprofits,
too)
Intellectual
Property (patents, trademarks, copyrights)
Enterprise
Law (starting organizations, legal forms of organizations, etc.)
Federal
Laws
State
Laws
Telecommunications
Laws
Email Archiving in the US -The key laws that affect your business
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