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Shutdown Allows Illinois Small Businesses and Not-for-Profit Corporations Time To Reassess How They Operate

  • April 30, 2020
  • by Noel Sterett

At Dalton & Tomich, we work with both for profit and not-for-profit clients in Illinois. Be it small business start-ups or existing religious ministries, we help our clients understand how they can accomplish their goals while navigating the various laws which govern how they may […]

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IS A BANK’S COLLAPSE A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME?

  • March 11, 2023
  • by John Stoddard

Almost a year ago, I wrote about businesses and their creditors preparing for a possible recession.  If we judged the economy solely by the cryptocurrency industry, we would have said it tanked long ago.  But we don’t, and here we are, still tiptoeing around the […]

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A STATE AWASH IN WEED . . . AND AN INDUSTRY AWASH IN DEBT

  • March 10, 2023
  • by John Stoddard

Michigan voters approved medical marijuana in 2008 and its recreational use in 2018.  The Great Lakes State is purportedly the third largest market for cannabis in the country, after California and Colorado. There are at least three major problems facing the industry, including too much […]

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Employers Beware: U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Highly Compensated Employees May be Eligible for Overtime Pay

  • March 9, 2023
  • by Zana Tomich

In a ruling that caught many employers by surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that an employee who earned more than $200,000 per year was nonetheless entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Court’s ruling in Helix Energy Solutions […]

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The Burden is on Employers When it Comes to Binding Employees to Employment Agreements in Michigan

  • March 1, 2023
  • by Zana Tomich

When a big company hires a new CEO or other top executives, lawyers get involved and an often long and complicated employment contract gets hammered out. For the average small to medium-sized business owner, that’s not how hiring works. Most employees go through a similar […]

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WE HAVE CHANGED OUR TERMS – Why you should read the fine print

  • January 10, 2023
  • by John Stoddard

“We have changed our terms.”  How often do you get this pop-up or email? It seems like companies, services, and platforms are constantly changing their terms. Now—answer honestly. How often do you read those changed terms or the fine print of any contract, whether in original […]

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Three Key Documents You Need When Buying or Selling a Business in Michigan

  • January 3, 2023
  • by Zana Tomich

While today’s financial headlines are highlighting the slowdown in the type of large company mergers and acquisitions that were so prevalent during the booming economy and low interest rate environment in 2021, there is still plenty of transaction activity among small and medium sized businesses. […]

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It’s Time for Small Businesses to Prepare for the New Corporate Transparency Act

  • June 8, 2022
  • by Zana Tomich

One of the benefits of owning a small business is that small businesses are exempt from many federal rules, regulations, and other forms of red tape that their larger counterparts are obligated to comply with. However, starting as early as late 2022, small business owners […]

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How to Get Your Business Ready for the Next Round of Financial Distress

  • March 4, 2022
  • by John Stoddard

I’ve written previously about the likely increase in delinquencies and bankruptcies coming this year, but the numbers have yet to back up that prediction.  In 2021, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, consumer bankruptcies decreased by 24%, commercial bankruptcies decreased by 31%, and Chapter 11s […]

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Pay Transparency: Changes in Norms are Leading to Changes in Laws

  • February 15, 2022
  • by John Stoddard

Dalton & Tomich represents many business owners, human resources professionals, and employers in any other sense of the word. If those labels apply to you, then you have heard about “pay transparency,” or you soon will. In short, there’s a movement afoot to make the […]

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Limit Your Liability by Dissolving Your Inactive Michigan LLC

  • February 14, 2022
  • by Zana Tomich

There’s a reason the term “serial entrepreneur” is so common: certain people love starting multiple business ventures—sometimes juggling multiple businesses at once. Owning more than one business can have benefits, such as diversifying an entrepreneur’s income streams and better utilizing certain fixed overhead costs, such […]

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