The Benchmark of Trust: What a BBB A+ Accreditation Means for Your Legal Defense When your business, livelihood, or personal assets are on the line in Silicon Valley, you cannot afford to hire a lawyer based on flashy advertisements alone. You need a street-smart advocate who operates with the highest level of professional integrity. For…
Arrested in a Neighboring Bay Area County? How Your Lawyer Can Go to Court For You Life in the Bay Area means you are constantly crossing county lines. You might live in San Jose, work in San Mateo, and spend your weekends in Santa Cruz or Alameda. But if you are pulled over or arrested…
Piercing the Corporate Veil: How Silicon Valley Business Owners Lose Their Personal Assets (And How to Stop It) You did the responsible thing. When you launched your business in Silicon Valley, you filed the paperwork to form an LLC or an S-Corp. You assumed that piece of paper filed with the California Secretary of State…
Breach of Contract in Silicon Valley: How to Enforce Your Business Agreements Contracts are the operational lifeblood of any successful enterprise in the Bay Area. Whether it is a commercial lease, a software licensing agreement, or a critical vendor supply chain contract, your business relies on these written promises to forecast revenue and maintain momentum.…
Facing a California Board Investigation? 4 Steps to Save Your Professional License If you are a licensed contractor, real estate broker, healthcare professional, or certified specialist in California, your license isn’t just a piece of paper—it is your entire livelihood. You invested years of hard work, thousands of dollars, and immense personal sacrifice to earn…
How to Legally Dissolve a Business Partnership in California Without Destroying the Company When you first launched your business in Silicon Valley, you and your partner likely focused entirely on growth, scaling, and market disruption. But just like a marriage, a significant percentage of business partnerships eventually reach a crossroads where the owners must part…
Do you really need a big expensive firm if your run a small and midsize business in the Silicon Valley? The answer is probably not. Unless the task or problem is over a million dollars a boutique law firm such as HWG LAW FIRM PC can easily perform the task or become in house counsel…
Charitable contributions for a law-firm make perfect sense. It allows a great way to market the firm in a positive light on any topic the business would like to grow. Whether it means speaking to a charity such as Boys and Girls Club, your local Lions or Rotary to perhaps sponsor an event everyone wants…
Often times competition and new businesses often struggle to get noticed in a chosen field. Whether it is as a new business, start-up or a seasoned company that wants to bring in new business and fresh opportunities and contacts the way to do that costs nothing but time. Volunteering is a great way to network…
As a practicing civil lawyer for fourteen plus years (hwgreen.com) I have seen many businesses that come for help after a problem with a business plan, partner(s) vendor contracts not properly formed and of course then unable to withstand a court challenge is all very avoidable if the start-up had a lawyer on retainer even…