Business Support

Attorney Vivica Pierre has also founded two businesses of her own. It is our business further business purpose to ensure that your business receives every dollar it is owed, or to protect your business copyright, trademark, and/or business reputation from injury. The Law Office of Vivica Smith Pierre is here to offer your business forms & legal services in the areas of:

-A

• Abandonment, allocating methods, audits
• Agent -- Registered Agent

-B

• Bankruptcy, bits, blowouts
• Business - Joint Venture Agreements, Working Interest Agreements
• Business Contracts - Disputes

-C

• Collections - Agent
• Communications, completion, computers, condensate, conflict of interest, construction, consultants, contract violations

-D

• Declarations - Property
• Deeds - Mortgages

-E

• Environmental, equipment, excessive costs, exploration
• Employment - Pre-employment (Expungement); Civil and Criminal Background Verifications

-F

• Family Law (See Family Law), Successions (Heirs), Wills
• Facilities, farm-outs and farm-ins fraud, fuel

-G

• Gas, gas balancing, goods and services charged and not delivered, government reports,
• Government Agency and Reports including compliance and regulatory reports for --

- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DNR)
- Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
- Secretary of State (SOS)

-H

• Health Care - Advanced Health Directive Forms

-I

• Industry practice, insurance claims, invoices
• Internet - Access & Use

• Joint interest billings (JIBs); Joint Operating Agreements (JOAs); Working Interests - - Joint interest knowledge as related to the meaning, intent and propriety of AFE's, Letter Agreements, Joint Operating Agreements

-K

-L

• Labor, legal, location, LOE
• Lease - Equipment

-M

• Materials, material transfers, mud

-N

• Name - Name Change
• Non-Compete - Confidentiality Agreement & Business Competitor
• Non-consent

-O

• Oil & Gas - Oil, onshore, overcharges, overhead, payouts

-P

• Property, pipeline, plant products, plugging, pricing, production
• Power of Attorney

-Q

• Revenue, royalties

-S

• Subsidiaries, supervision
• Successions (heirs, property and royalty rights)

-T

• Technology - Consultant Agreements
• Technology - License Agreement
• Technology - Records, Record Keeping & Discovery of Records and Information

-U

• Unleased owners in Louisiana, working interests, and workovers.

-W

• Wills - Beneficiary and Executor Forms
• Wills - Louisiana Wills

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-Y

-Z

Research & Statistics

Federal Government Grants:

http://www.governmentgrantusa.org/grantsforwomen.html

http://www.usagrantapplications.com

Armington, C. 2004. Development of Business Data: Tracking Firm Counts, Growth, and Turnover by Size of Firms. Prepared for the SBA Office of Advocacy. (December). Washington, DC: U.S. Small Business Administration.

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2002. Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2001. Report 960. (May). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor.

U.S. Census Bureau. 2003. Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003. 123rd edition. (December). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce.

Good Reads

Bacon, Lauren and Emira Mears (2008). Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business (ISBN-13: 9781580052368 ).

Christy, Janet W. (2006). Capitalizing on Being Woman Owned: Expert Advice for Women Who Have or Are Starting Their Own Business Including Marketing Research, Planning, Government Support, and Tax Breaks. (ISBN-13: 9781564148902)

Harris, Wendy and Wendy Beech (2001). Against All Odds: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Followed Their Hearts and Found Success (Black Enterprise Series). (ISBN 0-471-37472-5).

Ireland, Kathy (2009). Real Solutions for Busy Moms : Your Guide to Success and Sanity. (ISBN-13: 9781416563181).

Quamut (2007) Starting a Business (Quamut). (A downloadable format!) (ISBN-13: 9781411497627).

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