How To Avoid the 7 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Business

Shield Your Business Without Going to Law School

By: Brett Bacon

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Avoid Deadly Legal Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Business
by Brett Bacon, Esq. (over thirty years of experience as an attorney-at-law)

Starting and running a business is hard enough.
Avoidable legal mistakes shouldn’t be the reason it fails.

Every year, small businesses collapse—not because the owners lacked talent, effort, or integrity, but because they unknowingly made legal decisions that quietly exposed them to risk involving structure, contracts, taxes, liability, and financing.

How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Business is the first book in the Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes series, written for entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to understand the legal risks that actually matter—without legal jargon, dense explanations, or unnecessary detail.

This book focuses on the seven legal mistakes that most often cripple or destroy small businesses and shows you how to recognize and avoid them before they become costly or irreversible.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Set up your business properly and operate legally from day one
• Avoid handshake deals and protect yourself with enforceable contracts
• Safeguard your business name, brand, and ideas
• Navigate worker classification and employment rules
• Stay compliant with taxes and avoid costly surprises
• Reduce liability risks through smart planning and insurance
• Understand financing terms before debt becomes a threat

Each chapter breaks down one deadly mistake, explains why it’s dangerous, shows how it typically plays out in the real world, and ends with clear action steps and checklists you can use immediately.

This book is not a law school textbook.
It is not a legal reference manual.
And it is not written to sell legal services.

It is a practical, fast-reading guide designed to give business owners the right level of legal understanding—enough to spot problems early, ask better questions, and know when to seek local professional advice.

About the Series
The Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes Series is designed as a practical legal framework for business owners. Each book can be read on its own, but together they provide a clearer picture of how legal risk actually arises—and how to manage it before it turns into litigation, regulatory trouble, or financial loss.

If you want a lean, straightforward legal survival guide for your business, this book delivers exactly that—and nothing you don’t need.

About the Author

Brett Bacon, Esq. is a licensed attorney and entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience working at the intersection of law and business. He has advised business owners, executives, and founders on the legal realities of building, operating, structuring, buying, selling, and protecting closely held businesses under real-world conditions.