Laura Yanka

Laura's practice focuses on independent developers and startups. She endeavors to make every client feel welcome, important, heard, and respected.

Moonlighting: who owns what?

Moonlighting and side hustles – whatever you want to call them – come up frequently in the games space. However, it is important to keep in mind some potential issues that can arise – both from an employer’s perspective and from an employee’s perspective. An employer will generally want (and likely needs) to own all …

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What does at-will employment mean?

At-will employment is the default rule of employment in the United States. However, some states, even ones that adhere generally to at-will employment, have restrictions and limitations surrounding employment termination. This post summarizes at-will employment in a general sense and does not delve into all exceptions and restrictions. As always, it is best to seek …

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Best Practices in Creating and Enacting Return-To-Work Policies for the Company, Part 2

As more offices open up, more companies are seeking to keep their workforce safe. A vaccination policy, discussed in our previous blog post about return-to-work policies, is one piece of that process. However, no matter what policies a company has decided to adopt, there are important considerations in how to handle employee or visitor information …

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Best Practices in Creating and Enacting Return-To-Work Policies for the Company

COVID-19 has resulted in a multitude of questions about employment law and how businesses can navigate the pandemic in a safe and legal way.  In general, this overview on best practices will be high-level but these issues tend to be very state-specific, so a good starting point is going to be any state or local …

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What’s the difference between converting or merging a non-corporation to a corporation?

Sometimes owners of a company that is not a corporation may want to convert it into a corporation to prepare for future investment opportunities. However, some states do not provide for statutory conversions. In those cases, a merger is the proper method. What is a statutory conversion? Statutory conversion is the process through which one …

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