For those of you who missed my recent speaking engagement to the INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS USA, I wanted to provide some of the key information that was addressed at that meeting. My topic was about the “Top 10 Contractual Legal Issues Faced When Using Subcontractors” and explored multiple legal issues encountered when using subcontractors for you business. Continue reading
Author Archives: Mark Klein
Contracting with Subcontractors
Freelancers’ Articles are NOT Free
The dispute arose when the publishers, without obtaining the authors’ permission or agreeing to provide extra compensation to them, licensed the rights to copy and sell articles to a computerized database of periodicals and to the producer of CD ROM products. Continue reading
Capped Commissions
As a sales representative for a computer software company, Richard received an annual salary and sales commissions as determined by a compensation plan that was part of his contract. There was a specific formula for how commissions were to be calculated, but language in the plan gave the company broad authority to make a final decision about compensation and to change the plan at any time. Continue reading
Speaking Engagement:
How to Successfully Subcontract with Other Consultants

With Mark D. Klein, Esq., Klein Law Corporation
Thursday October 9, 2014, 7:30-9:00 a.m.
Mimi’s Café, Irvine (at the corner of Barranca and Culver) Continue reading
Oldest Profession
LAWYER JOKE #7
A physician, an engineer, and a lawyer were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon said, “Remember how God removed a rib from Adam to create Eve? Obviously, medicine is the oldest profession.” The engineer replied, “But before … Continue reading