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I am privileged from time to time to guest lecture to a class at the University of Missouri—Kansas City’s School of Law or its Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at…

Apparently, I wasn’t paying attention and suddenly everything changed.  The life of the here and now, and of being present in the moment, changed into a life of self-isolation and…

A key piece of good disclosure in offering documents used to raise investment capital is the “risk factors” section.  This section is used to highlight important risk factors a prospective…

Late in the evening yesterday, about 9:00, I stopped in for a brief visit with a very dear friend of mine, John R. Shank, Jr., who had already entered the…

Sauer Gallery @ Krause Law, Open Gallery October 18, 2019, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. I like to think of my law practice as my own form of art.  Perhaps that’s…

We are working on some technology upgrades at Krause Law.  When we rebranded my law practice as “Krause Law LLC” about five years ago, that coincided with moving into new…

Early stage companies making their “pitch” to prospective investors typically describe their anticipated “exit strategies.”  That terminology references the hoped-for circumstances in which the investors will have an opportunity to…

I recently received an e-mail from an opposing party in a long-standing, over-heated dispute, in which the opposing party personally addressed his message to me with the salutation “Dear Bald…

The phrase “split the baby” has its roots in Hebrew lore, in the story recorded at 1 Kings 3:16-18 of two mothers claiming before King Solomon that each was the…

When I lecture on negotiating principles, my recommended “ground rules” always include two points (among others): Make sure you know what the other side really wants out of the deal,…