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Legal Advice Critical
To All Businesses
Fred Steingold (left) and Michael Schroer of Hamilton, Judge, Schroer & Steingold, PLC
By David Baker and Margaret Baker
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 5:22
Good legal advice is essential to running a successful business. We wondered what are core legal considerations involved in starting or running a business.
We spoke with four Ann Arbor area business lawyers and asked them to provide advice to entrepreneurs who are either running or plan to start a business.
Uzma Ahmad, J.D., Dykema Gossett PLLC (uahmad@dykema.com)
Ahmad received both her A.B. and J.D. degrees at Harvard and practiced law in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts prior to joining Dykema in Ann Arbor in 2006. Ahmad advises entrepreneurs on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. She also serves on the board of the New Enterprise Forum (www.newenterpriseforum.org), an Ann Arbor-based non-profit organization that helps entrepreneurs prosper and grow. "I'm involved with the entrepreneurial community," Ahmad notes, "and I work with companies of all sizes and at all stages of the company life cycle."
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