complete litigation services together with patent, trademark, and patent design legal services.
Garcia-Zamor Blog
Sales Commission Plans: The Legal Exposure Hiding in Your Comp Structure
You're about to hire your next salesperson. You've got the comp structure in your head—base salary, percentage on closed deals, maybe an accelerator for overachievement. You...
Non-Solicitation Agreements: What They Actually Protect (And What They Don’t)
You just lost a key employee to a competitor. They're gone, and now you're wondering: can they call your best customers? Can they recruit your other team members? You vaguely...
Severance Agreements: What Should Actually Be In Them
Most founders build severance agreements under pressure. An employee is leaving under difficult circumstances. Emotions are running high. You need something signed quickly, and...
When to File a Trademark (And What Happens If You Wait)
You've been using your brand name for six months. Business is growing. You keep telling yourself you'll file the trademark "when things settle down." What often happens next:...
Partnership Agreements Are Written for Optimism. The Problems Show Up Later
When partners are excited about a new venture, nobody wants to spend time planning for the day things fall apart. That's human nature - and it's exactly why most partnership...
What Enterprise Procurement Teams Actually Care About (And How to Use That to Close Faster)
Enterprise contract negotiation gets blamed for slowing sales cycles. Deals stall in legal review for weeks. Founders assume the customer's legal team is being difficult....
Work for Hire vs. IP Assignment: Who Actually Owns What Your Contractor Builds?
You hired a freelance developer to build your app. A design agency to create your brand. A contractor to write the software that runs your operations. The work is finished. You...
Due Diligence Readiness: Build Toward It Now or Scramble Later
You just got a call from a strategic acquirer. Or your Series A lead sends over a diligence request list. Or an enterprise customer's procurement team asks for documentation...
What Hiring One Remote Employee in a New State Actually Triggers
You hired a developer in Colorado last month. She's great. Fully remote, no office, no physical footprint - just a laptop and a Slack account. In your mind, you added a team...