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Employment Agreements: What Small Business Owners Need To Know

UCFIP Brunch-n-Learn
Sponsored by Edward R. Alexander, Jr., P.L., Attorney-at-Law

Date:       Part I – Tuesday, October 7, 2008
                Part II – Thursday, November 6, 2008
Time:       8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Location: UCF Incubator-Seminole County, Suite 2001, 1511 E. SR 434, Winter Springs

Brunch will be provided. No Charge to Incubator Clients.

This two-part workshop series will cover information for the small business owner related to employment agreements, including non-compete agreements, restrictive covenants, and intellectual property assignment provisions, as well as stock options and restricted stock grants, and related capital structure planning.

In Part I of this interactive seminar, you will:

  • Learn how to minimize your risk when recruiting employees;
  • Understand the dos and don’ts of non-compete agreements, and;
  • Learn how to protect your intellectual property in the event an employee departs.

Ed Alexander is an attorney who represents businesses and their owners in the areas of corporate, business and commercial law, securities, technology and intellectual property licensing, and corporate finance. He is primary counsel to clients for business acquisitions and sales, financing transactions, licensing technology and intellectual property assets, and creation of partnership and LLC operating agreements, shareholder buy-sell and management agreements, employment agreements and stock option plans. Ed is a solo practitioner with an “of counsel” relationship with Stovash, Case & Tingley, P.A. He has been practicing since 1993 and is admitted in Florida and New York.

Prior to law school, Ed held non-legal positions in the business world with technology companies, including a pacemaker manufacturer, custom integrated circuit manufacturer and laser bar code manufacturer. In 1995, Ed was awarded U.S. Patent, No. 5,468,952, for his 1992 invention of a combined miniature high speed scanner and portable handheld computer. He has been an Adjunct lecturer for the University of Central Florida School of Business, teaching New Venture Finance and was 2007 Chairman of the East Orlando Chamber of Commerce. Ed also works with the Orange County Legal Aid Society as a volunteer guardian ad-litem for abused and neglected children.

If you wish to attend this seminar, please RSVP via email to wsincubator@mail.ucf.edu.

 

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