WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar is intended for junior attorneys and paralegals who need to gain a greater understanding of their business license requirements, either for their own operations or for their clients. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

This seminar will provide attendees an overview of the business licensing process, and effective ways of managing it.  Attendees will learn how to:

• Manage jurisdictional level requirements
• Ensure that all business locations comply with regulations, statutes, rules and regulations (at each jurisdictional level)
• Take proper steps to acquire all required licenses to conduct business at each location
• Maintain compliance with on-going requirements and changes in regulations
• Understand and address license needs as a business evolves through the entity lifecycle

TOPICS DISCUSSED

• What are business licenses permits and tax registrations?
• Identifying license requirements
• Managing business license through the entity life-cycle
• Mitigating risk of non-compliance

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Junior Attorneys, Paralegals and legal professionals who are often assigned to manage business licenses will benefit from this program.

TIMED AGENDA 60 minutes

Growing and Dividing the Pot

• What are business licenses, permits, and tax registrations? – (10 min)
  Tomas Medina, ESQ
   
• Identifying license requirements – (20 min)
  Mark Slivovsky
   
• Managing business license through the entity life-cycle – (20 min)
  Mark Slivovsky
   
• Mitigating risk of non-compliance –  (10 min)
  Tomas Medina, ESQ

FACULTY

Mark Slivovsky, Senior Product Marketing Manager, CT Corporation

Mr. Slivovsky has been the business licenses product manager for CT Corporation for the past two years during which he has been responsible for the rollout and development of all company business licenses offerings.   Mark also manages a series of an intelligent web-based service solutions which are aimed to allow corporate and legal professionals to more effectively manage dynamic information. Previously Slivovsky was with AT&T for twelve years, starting his career there as a web designer and programmer for the launch of AT&T Worldnet Service.  He transitioned into product management managing over the AT&T Corporate site att.com and launching AnyWho.com, an online white and yellow pages directory.  Prior to leaving AT&T he led efforts to foster system-to-system integration of Cingular Wireless integration with AT&T’s enterprise backend systems.

Slivovsky holds an Executive Master of Technology Management from The Stevens Institute and is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Technical Graphics.
mark.slivovsky@wolterskluwer.com

Tomas Medina, ESQ, Product Manager, CT Corporation

Tomas Medina has been a Litigation and Representation product manager with CT since 2006, working on various products including Service of Process on CTAdvantage and CT’s Universal Service of Process Connector.  Prior to joining CT, Mr. Medina worked for ten years at two media companies as both a business manager and as in-house counsel.  Mr. Medina also worked two years as a Court Attorney for the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of  New York.  Mr. Medina earned his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley is a member of the bar of the State Bar of New York.
Tomas.medina@wolterskluwer.com