TAMIU SBDC Offers Seminar on Legal Issues for Micro-enterprises July 13

The Texas A&M International University Small Business Development Center (TAMIU-SBDC), in conjunction with the Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid Legal Assistance to Microenterprise Project (LAMP) will provide a seminar to assist potential and existing business owners with legal issues on Friday, July 13, 2007 from 1:30-4:30 pm at Casa Ortiz, TAMIU's downtown campus at 915 Zaragoza.

The free-of-charge seminar will be conducted by Laredo staff attorney Andrea Beleno and will focus on various legal aspects of the small business.

It will include:

* Contracts
* Employment
* Advertising and promotion laws
* Taxes
* Health and safety laws
* Finance
* Commercial landlord and tenant laws.

To register, call the TAMIU SBDC office at 956.326.2827 or e-mail: sbdc@tamiu.edu

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