There are some thoughtful comments -- from lawyers! -- on Fred Wilson's post of yesterday on the various sets of seed funding documents now available o (Read More)

In my last post, I fantasized about what the Citizens United case might have portended, were Justice Clarence Thomas to have written the majority opini (Read More)

In explicating the holding of the majority in the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United case, Stanley Fish shows how the majority actually pulls its p (Read More)

I don't know how you feel about the recent, controversial Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, but it struck me this (Read More)

Last week, Ben Hatten of Legal River e-mailed to let me know his company had just released a "terms of service generator" and a "privacy (Read More)

It's always best to say what you mean as clearly and as simply as you can, right?Maybe.If you’re writing the "risk factors" for an offe (Read More)

Matt Heaton has pointed me to Giff Constable's effort to amass a list of good web startup lawyers.I don't know, and cannot personally vouch for, any of (Read More)

Even though I haven't written about them, there are other things in Senator Dodd's bill that I and other lawyers don't like. For instance, the bill wou (Read More)

I went to an informational session held on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington this evening for the Founder Institute's upcoming Winter (Read More)

Earlier this week, TheFunded Founder Institute released a model term sheet intended for venture-oriented first round financings. In his post announcing (Read More)

I'm not at Gnomedex, taking place in Seattle today at the sleek & slender Bell Harbor Conference Center. I'm up the hill at the bigger, older, clun (Read More)

The Orrick law firm has now made a venture capital term sheet creator available on the web, so I thought I'd take it for a test drive and compare it to (Read More)

Because contracts matter, Web 2.0 entrepreneurs will want to publish "terms of use" or "terms of service" (I'll call them "TOS (Read More)

This post is, in a way, a riff on the recent "Term Sheet Manners" post on Fred Wilson's blog.  My message to entrepreneurs is, "alw (Read More)