Questions to Guide You
What are the current legal trends? For example, there is a great deal of debate about the Internet, net neutrality, net security, and who pays whom. If Netflix is your company how would these debates affect them?
- How do changes in the current laws affect your company?
- Is there environmental, copyright, or other legislation that proves costly for your company's production, waste management, and/or business practices?
- Is there a trial in court that may have larger ramifications? Changes in consumer protection? Consider examples such as smokers taking tobacco companies to court.
- Are your company's employment practices up to code? Do they rely on sweat shops abroad? How do they abide by international employment laws?
- Does your company have a copyright or patent that is about to expire? Are there outstanding lawsuits about copyright, trademark, or patent infringement?
- Is the company being taken to court for inappropriate dismissals, book keeping, record keeping, sexual harassment, computer software cheats, data hacks or (you fill in the blank)? Or if the courts are not looking at your company yet, will they? Soon?
