Chamber Training Series featuring Adam Dunn "Communication, Your Business, and the Role of Your Lawyer"

Join us for this Wednesday's Chamber Training Series presented by Adam Dunn.

You and your friend (or spouse, or relative, or anyone) have an outstanding idea.  You are going to start a business and change the world, or at least make a buck.  You sit down, you talk about your business, hammer out some details and you are ready to open your doors and make history.  Have you talked through business structures, and which is best for you?  Have you considered whether an LLC or S-Corp or some other newfangled option is best to house your game-changing enterprise?  Did you talk through who is going to do what, when, and how – and more importantly, will you remember what you figure out now once the company turns a profit later.  We are all different and there are many mistakes that occur because we may have not properly communicated and determined all of the necessary details of what our business will be.  We may not know exactly what everyone is going to do or, in some cases, when we have decided, we may not have properly documented what we are going to do.  Even limits to liability that almost every business owner cares about can be washed away if we have not properly communicated and worked through necessary items in starting and running our businesses.  
 
Your lawyer should assist you in all communications that are the necessary foundation of any successful business.  Your lawyer needs to help you develop your plan, structure, goals, contributions, and the like, and should be there to help ensure that those items decided upon are written down appropriately.  We all forget, change focus, reimagine, and alter our thinking over time.  Come learn about business structure options like LLCs and S-Corps, when to use them and how to decide which is right for your business.  Learn about common pitfalls that come from not communicating about operating agreements, by-laws, non-competes, buy-sells and other necessary agreements and not properly documenting what has been decided.  Come learn of common pitfalls with partners, investors (including family members), and employees and how to lessen those problems and hear of actual examples in order to learn the best ways to avoid those pitfalls.  

Adam C. Dunn is a graduate of the Emory University School of Law and Brigham Young University. He has also pursued doctoral studies at the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  While at Georgia Tech, he assisted in research projects involving public-private partnerships in transportation and education. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Udvar-Hazy School of Business at Dixie State College where he teaches statistics.

In addition to his experience in private legal practice, he has worked in government and as a management consultant.  He has started numerous successful businesses including his own consultancy firm.  He has provided consulting services to a wide variety of clients in numerous industries involving government contracting, regulation, contract management and policy.  His varying experience in business and with government has uniquely qualified him to view legal issues and situations through many different lenses and allows him to provide significant benefit to his legal clients.

Much of his life has been shaped by experiences he had when he lived in Romania for two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  While there he served the Romanian people in hospitals and orphanages.  He witnessed abject poverty, sorrow, and tremendous suffering.  Since returning from Romania, he has dedicated time, means, and energy to serve those in need of assistance or otherwise suffering.  Currently he is serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dixie Care & Share, a local charity that serves our less fortunate neighbors as a pantry and shelter, among other things.

His area of legal practice focuses on complex business litigation, civil litigation involving the government and private citizens and businesses, business mediation, securities, and business structuring.