California Business Laws & Regulations:
Skilled, Experienced Help by San Diego Law Firm

Help with San Diego Business Permits & Licenses, CA Regulations, Employment Laws, Tax Laws

San Diego Law Firm can help you bring your business into compliance with all federal, California, San Diego and/or other county and city laws, leaving you free to focus on business management and growth. We can provide experienced advice, help you obtain permits and licenses, set up easy-to-follow business systems and reminders to ensure that your business stays in compliance, and keep you up to date with laws concerning:

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Workers' compensation
• Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Immigration
• Operating licenses and permits
• Hazardous material transport and disposal
• Business income tax
• Sales tax collection
• Employee withholding taxes
• Local building code requirements
• Signs & labels permitted or required
• Prohibitions on unfair competition
• Business finance

How San Diego Law Firm Can Help You With Business Law Compliance

Determining what laws and regulations apply to your particular business and how to satisfy those obligations can be overwhelming.  You can depend on the knowledgeable and experienced attorneys of San Diego Law Firm to help your business stay in compliance with all laws and regulations, including:

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Compliance

• San Diego Law Firm can advise you on the steps you need to take to bring your specific business into compliance before OSHA inspections.
• We will assist you to comply with OSHA rules for recording and reporting, and help you identify the activities that need to be documented to protect your business.
• We will help you develop or revise a safety and health plan tailored to your business, with appropriate training for your managers, supervisors, and/or employees. 

Workers' compensation

• San Diego Law Firm can advise you as to when you need to carry workers' compensation insurance, the workers must be covered, and what your options are.  Compliance is essential to avoiding civil and criminal penalties that can jeopardize you and your business.
• We can help you satisfy related notice requirements and other labor laws.
• We will provide experienced advice and assistance to effectively handle workplace injuries.

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Whenever you have a disabled employee or job applicant, San Diego Law Firm can advise you on what reasonable accommodations you must make to comply with the requirements of the ADA. We can also help you develop a clear description of the essential tasks of each job, so that you can appropriately refuse or terminate employment without fear of a lawsuit or administrative complaint when there is no reasonable accommodation that would enable a disabled employee to do his or her job.
• We will advise you on ADA notice requirements and rules for providing disabled employees with access to benefits and facilities, and help you develop business systems that avoid ADA violations.

Immigration

• The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires verification of the employment eligibility and identity of persons to be hired. If immigration problems are a potential hazard in your industry, we can help you develop sound procedures for avoiding them and advise you on any difficult situations that may arise.

Operating licenses and permits

• We can prepare and submit applications for all the licenses and permits you will need to operate your business lawfully and avoid legal penalties.

Hazardous material transport and disposal

• Hazardous material disposal is becoming a problem to more industries due to increasingly complicated environmental and health regulations. We can help you develop a sound materials disposal plan and checklist approach to avoid penalties in transporting and disposing of hazardous waste, hazardous materials, and dangerous goods.

Taxes

Business income tax. San Diego Law Firm can advise you on small business tax deductions and local taxes, and work with your accountant as needed to help with any tax problems.

Sales tax collection. We can help you develop record-keeping and other systems for sales tax collections, and advise you on which, if any, of your sales will qualify for exemptions or exclusions.

Employee withholding taxes. We can help you develop record-keeping and banking procedures to comply with employee tax withholding laws, and with related registration and reporting requirements.

Building and Access Issues

Local building code requirements. If you are evaluating a potential new building, or are adding on to your current building, San Diego Law Firm can advise you on any specific construction or modifications your specific business may need to make to comply with California and local building code requirements. 

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

• The Americans with Disabilities Act requires most businesses to provide for parking, entrance, and many other types of accessibility for disabled persons. There are some limited exceptions for businesses that do not allow any clients, customers, or members of the public on their premises. We can advise you on whether your business must comply or falls within an exception.
• If compliance is required, we can advise you on the steps you need to take to remove barriers, provide signs, and make other accommodations that will satisfy the ADA.
• We can help you make sure that all steps you take qualify for any available tax credits or deductions that could offset specific costs your business incurs in providing access to persons with disabilities.

Signs & labels permitted or required. Advise you on what safety and other signage and labels your specific business will need to comply with standards set under the ADA, OSHA, and ANSI, for example.

Business Conduct

Prohibitions on unfair competition. California law prohibits unfair business competition; you can inadvertently violate these laws when you create a new trademark, logo, or slogan; advertise goods or services at a low price; recruit new customers away from their existing service provider, or hire employees previously employed by a competitor. You can consult with us whenever you face any of these situations, and we will tell you the steps you need to take to avoid violating the law.

Business finance. If non-owners invested in your business, we will advise you on how to prevent accounting errors or unlawful accounting practices, on financial reporting, on retaining documents, and on matters regarding employees and executive compensation, so that your business complies with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and securities law.

How to Contact San Diego Law Firm

We handle matters throughout California, and new clients are always welcome. For more information or to make an appointment, please contact us either by:

Telephone: (619) 794-0243

E-mail: contactus@SanDiegoLawFirm.com
 

We can be reached by telephone Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You may also use the form below to contact us. This form is answered Monday through Friday during the work day. Please remember that for us to become your attorneys, we must first have a written attorney-client agreement signed by both of us, so please do not email any confidential information at this point. After we have reached an agreement with you, we can then exchange information freely. We look forward to helping you.

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