Michigan – Purpose Driven General Counsel

Reminder for Michigan Limited Liability Companies on Upcoming Filing Deadline. Stay in Good Standing and Maintain your Corporate Formalities.

Happy #ThrowbackThursday. Some (maybe all of you) may be wondering about my choice of including this photo – it is me, years ago, dressed as Sparty for the MSUvUofM game. I thought it pertinent, given the topic of this e-mail is maintaining your business “liability shield” and as everyone knows, Sparty is the greatest warrior/mascotContinue reading “Reminder for Michigan Limited Liability Companies on Upcoming Filing Deadline. Stay in Good Standing and Maintain your Corporate Formalities.”

Reminder to Michigan Limited Liability Companies: Maintain your Corporate Formalities and Keep up your Guard.

Occasionally I will have a business client come in and I will ask – just to make sure – “is your business still in good standing?” The common answer is “I think so.” And of course, after I perform a quick internet check with the State of Michigan it is all too common that IContinue reading “Reminder to Michigan Limited Liability Companies: Maintain your Corporate Formalities and Keep up your Guard.”

Trending Towards Social Entrepreneurship: Update on Michigan’s Benefit Corporation Legislation.

House Bills 5710, 5711 & 5712 were introduced on May 31, that would allow BCorps to be formed under Michigan Law. Although the State House has taken no formal action since June 1, in late September the House Fiscal Agency issued a Fiscal Analysis on the BCorp bills, check it out here. The AnalysisContinue reading “Trending Towards Social Entrepreneurship: Update on Michigan’s Benefit Corporation Legislation.”

Michigan legislative update and my guest blog post on the Michigan Consumer Protection Act

I recently posted a Guest Blog on GRAPE, titled “Business owners: What you should know about the Michigan Consumer Protection Act”: You can view it here Also, for a look at some updates in Michigan proposed legislation check out the Michigan Public Policy Resource Center I would like to note that IContinue reading “Michigan legislative update and my guest blog post on the Michigan Consumer Protection Act”