Drug Possession Defense Attorneys from Imhoff and Associates can be your best partner in dealing with trial. There are many ways and means for the attorney to strengthen your position as client such as to interview the police, witness, and prosecutor as their investigation act, work to get the charge against you dropped or lowered, provide you with complete guidance, and so forth. By making the entire investigation, it is hoped that you can have the minimum penalties.

Related to the penalties, what you will obtain depends on the type of cocaine possession whether you use it, distribute the material, or sell it. Basically, it is based on how you store the drugs as well as the place, any paraphernalia presence, and also other factors. As the result, you probably will need to have a forced registration as a drug offender, have probation, lose your driver’s license, or even the drug testing.

Business Plan: Be clear who your potential customers and develop a plan to attract them (marketing and sales plan).

How to facilitate new service contract? Increase your contacts list. Keep track of the business press, meet the needs of business, personalize their service offerings for them and visit them without pressing. Faced with a customized offer, the decoding of our message by the potential customer is clear: “This office has been concerned to know and understand my needs.

Actively participate in trade fairs and conferences enabling him to more potential customers. Divide the work among its members. Participate actively in an association. This participation should be consistent with your personal strategy and release. Think. If for example belongs to an association of young lawyers, so use it: to devote part of their time to the advancement of the profession, also dedicate yourself to create, for example, an international network of contacts between young lawyers’ offices.

Contacts: Contacts are essential in the business world. But beware: it is necessary to help you convey the image you want to convey.

For example, one of my clients is a lawyer for a newspaper. When participating in business meetings with the media and businessmen, was presented by the media as “The newspaper’s lawyer.” What was the problem? My client untapped potential business opportunities, since employers could begin to imagine that even worked as a clerk, staff attorney in the newspaper. I commented to my client that submitted as follows: “a member of X, a law firm and able to assist companies to internationalize. Furthermore, our legal counsel. ”

The message is very different and opens doors to new customers.

Customers: Remember to customers. There are professional firms who only remember when they receive from those paying the fee equals or periodically. It is the best way to be lost. Follow up: be at least fortnightly contact with customers. Send them articles of interest, ask about your satisfaction, praise her for her birthday, invite them to events that you know will be interested in attending, seminar exclusively for clients and acquaintances, and so on. Select “responsible for customers.” Your goal should not be selling both legal services and consolidate the relationship of trust with customers.

The offer should be different from competitors, but attention, by offering not only understand the range of services (always reproducible), but the concept and image of the office, technical and relational quality of the lawyers and the service provided to client customized.

Communicate low expectations to the customer: if you give the customer more than expected, you will earn your trust.

Manage your time well: Be brave: avoid focusing on issues unprofitable from the start of his career. If you accept all types of assignments, eventually mortgaged: work long hours for low profitability. Learn to say “no”. Focus on more profitable clients and cases. Less working hours + more fees = quality of life.

Manage time well: concentrate in 20% of its customers, who account for 80% of its sales. The remaining customer service also give them a professional, but dedicate less time.

Final tip: Often there are opportunities where others do not consider it. A few weeks ago a young European lawyer consulted me following. “I’m going to live in China. I have been in contact with large law firms with offices in China to offer my services. However it has not been effective. I do not know what to do. ”

Answer: Modify the approach: You are in a city of more than 7 million inhabitants, where there is no office of his country. Your opportunity is to maintain, at minimum, the office in Europe or establishing a partnership with an office in your country. Invest (low investment): open a microdespacho in China. Promote your availability to expatriates in his country in the Asian Dragon, the media in his country and, by extension, to companies. Start with patience and the utmost respect, trust relationships with the Chinese business community in China and with the resident in their country. Position yourself as an alternative to other firms. “

The market research: The world is full of conquerors who seek to change others, when the first thing to do is to change or improve yourself. If you improve, start to find new results. Therefore, the epicenter of its market is you and your office. It is essential that you know your strengths and areas for improvement. Ask your partner how you’re perceived. Enhance your personal brand on the basis of their virtues or strengths.

The professional profile – In a hypercompetitive world, the most valued profile is lawyer-consultant, ie a lawyer to help the customer oriented and able to detect the needs of their customers and even to anticipate them. An attorney with business profile, a professional who brings value to the customer.

The image: We are an image. Until we know, for people are a picture: pleasant, reliable, capable, smart, nasty, and so on. They are therefore very important first impressions when formed perceptions. Watch your language verbal and gestural detail. Language creates perception, the door of business.

Fees: Anyone can compete on lower fees. You should be able to provide a service that justifies the fees in line with the capacity of professionals. To achieve this, understands well the needs of customers, more valórese, gain brand and give clients a bespoke service.

Partners: Choose your partners with professional criteria, not just friendship or interpersonal harmony. Partner with professionals that will complement not only skills (specialty) but also and above all attitudes.

Consultants or suppliers: Select according to their quality, not taking the price as a basic criterion. Treat them with respect, as well as their best customers. A quality provider will save you time, trouble and add value to your brand.

Projects: Since the beginning of your career, in addition to performing tasks (impulse of cases) concentrate on projects, ie, to be referenced in any market. Focusing on projects involving our clients choose to work for it, strive to live the life you want to live.

Park your fear, your another potential barrier paper. The ability to think big costs no money and only those who think big find opportunities. Think big computing well as investing their money and their time. If you have good values, that no one will “steal” their dreams. The first steps

The first steps
Imagine a young graduate who has been trained in legal practice and decided to join the profession. Usually the first thing that comes to mind is to try to join a firm or associate with others and open office. It is not essential. The key is to market its own strategy, a strategy defined, in writing, and opt for one of the above options.

Constantly update their knowledge and reflect, however, the following. Knowledge, while essential, no marketing strategy is not going to carry very far. As George Bernard Shaw said: “Those who can, do, those who can not, teach [" Those who can, do, those who can not give classes "].

Attitude:
The attitude is the foundation. To get new results, you should do different things. If not, the reason for his professional roof is yourself. Do not blame others. Learning to be stronger mentally, gain self-esteem is essential to make a name in the profession. Improving self-esteem, accepting oneself is basic to better sell legal services.

Admire:
Admire, not envy. For example, if you aspire to have a legal services company, the best we can do is admire the large law firms. Then you can learn from them. If you envy, you will lose energy unnecessarily.

Values:
What is it that different? The values and style. You must know explicitly their values, define and communicate.

Vision:
What is your vision? Want to be an alternative to law firms that support the internationalization of companies in your country? An example: For years I have built up an extensive international network of contacts, influential law firms and indigenous major international markets. These offices are ready to support European business associations and my clients in their international expansion. If I’ve done it, so can you. Having a direction (vision) is transcendental. His dreams (vision) are becoming reality at the time that the plasma in writing, defines objectives, strategies, actions, responsible for their achievement and a calendar.

The Justices of the Peace
Operating in the area of the municipality in which they are located and there are those in which there are no Courts of First Instance and Instruction.

The Courts of First Instance and Instruction
They cover the territorial scope of a judicial district, that is, the territorial unit consists of one or more neighboring municipalities that belong to a single province. The venue of these courts is in the capital city of the party.
Have jurisdiction to hear the following cases:
* Proceedings of Habeas Corpus.
* The investigation of crimes committed in their judicial district and those whose prosecution is for the Provincial Courts and Criminal Courts.
* Knowledge and failure cases for minor offenses, except those representing the peace courts.
* Resources established by law against decisions by the Courts of Peace of the Party.

Criminal Courts, Juvenile and prison security
May include a game territorially judicial or several, and even several provinces. When Develop their skills in a single province, is located in the capital of the same.

The Criminal Courts prosecute crimes committed in their area punishable by less than 5 years imprisonment or fine.

Juvenile Courts prosecute crimes committed by minors.

The prison security courts exercise functions related to monitoring the implementation and enforcement of custodial penalties, security measures in prisons … etc.

The Provincial Courts
They develop their skills in a province, and its headquarters located in the capital itself. There may also be sections of the audience outside the provincial capital that will be subject to one or more judicial districts.

Have jurisdiction to hear:
* The offenses which are imprisonment for a period exceeding 5 years.
* The resources provided by law against decisions by trial courts and criminal of the province as well as the resources of the Courts prison supervision on execution of penalties, enforcement and appeals from decisions of the Juvenile Courts of the province.

The High Courts
Cover the territory of the Autonomous Community and its headquarters is located in the city designated in each case by the Statutes of Autonomy, or otherwise, in the city in which the Territorial Court is sitting, or in the capital of the Community Autonomous.

The cities of Ceuta and Melilla are integrated within the territory of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia.

These courts will hear:
* The criminal cases that the Statute of Autonomy them aside.
* Appeals, where provided by law.
* Criminal cases against judges, magistrates and members of the prosecution for crimes they have committed in office in the Autonomous Communities, where no jurisdiction, the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court, the Audiencia Nacional, the Central Court of Investigation and the Central Criminal Courts
They cover the whole national territory and have its headquarters in Madrid.

The Supreme Court is the superior court hearing:
* Exceptional resources established by law in criminal matters (appeals, appeal … etc).
* Causes of Crimes against persons who hold a charge, among others, that of Prime Minister, President of the Congress and Senate, members of Government, Chief Justice, Judges of the High Court or Supreme Court … etc.

The High Court will take cases involving certain crimes, including:
* Crimes against the Crown and senior Crown agencies and the Government.
* Currency counterfeiting and drug trafficking, when committed by organized groups and effects in the territory of more than a provincial court.
* Crimes committed abroad which are to be tried in our country.

The Central Criminal Courts prosecute those crimes punishable by less than 5 years imprisonment or fine.

The Central Court of Investigation conducted the investigation of cases the prosecution of which corresponds to the Criminal Division of the National Court or, where appropriate, the Central Criminal Courts.

These courts also handled the cases of passive extradition, as determined by applicable laws.

The Court Jury
The jury trial was held in the area of the Provincial Court or other courts, in the manner prescribed by law.

As regards the reasons that the Court can prosecute the jury are among others the following:
* Crimes of fires and wildfires.
* Parricide, murder, manslaughter and infanticide.
* Embezzlement of public funds.
* Negotiations prohibited to public officials.
* Failure to provide assistance.
* Burglary.

If it is not known, to determine the court or tribunal should be addressed to the place:
* In which have discovered evidence of the crime.
* In which made the arrest.
* The residence of the alleged accused.
* In the absence of the above is responsible any judge or court was aware of the crime.

But the jurisdiction of various courts and tribunals are not uniquely determined according to a criterion territorial but functional. Thus, there are certain crimes which by their gravity or nature are tried by special courts.

Below are all the courts with criminal jurisdiction and the powers or functions that each is assigned.
- The Justices of the Peace
- The Courts of First Instance and Instruction
- Criminal Courts, Juvenile and prison security
- The Provincial Courts
- The High Courts
- The Supreme Court, the Audiencia Nacional, the Central Criminal Courts and the Central Court of Instruction.
- The Court of Jury

In general, the first or second time I see them I can identify whether they are lawyers or attorneys tool obstacle.

Obstacle is the lawyer who sees problems, negotiate aggressively, ends with a poor relationship with his colleagues on the other side and sometimes even his own client, he understood business and tries to prove getting into commercial issues of negotiation, says if not it’s up and goes beyond what it should. In general they are colleagues who do not understand that their role is to advise, unlock and implement giving legal, but not show everything like a big problem impossible to solve, even “creating” problems where none exist to justify work or hours collectible.

This is the kind of lawyer I ever wanted not to be, and every time I start a negotiation not touch me I want the other side.

Counsel tool, however, is who really knows what is sitting in that chair. He is someone who accompanies the commentary of the existence of a problem with one or more possible solutions is limited to fulfill its function, using what you know not to do business inatinentes documents, but show no interest beyond the proper role to play , does everything possible because the business is done under the conditions that the parties wanted, without taking advantage or soiling negotiation. Who knows he is shorter and quickly finalize and sign the customer will be happier with the work and most will recommend to others.

The tool is a lawyer who tried to be in my profession, and whom I have the other side when a contract business.

The Registrar General of Intellectual Property is part of the General State Administration under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. There are also territorial records managed by the Autonomous Communities who process registrations that occur on their territory.

The Registration is voluntary and therefore the existence of intellectual property rights does not depend on registration: intellectual property rights are born with the creation of the work. The registry is intended to protect intellectual property rights by providing proof of the existence of the work and ownership that has on it who fits.
Another aim of the Register is to publicize the rights which it fits.

What works can be entered in the Register?
In the registry can sign the rights to all works, performances and productions that are protected by copyright law and intellectual property rights that apply to performers, producers of phonograms and audiovisual recordings, institutions broadcasting, creators of photographs and some editorial productions.

However, they can not be registered because they are not protected by copyright law, ideas, procedures, systems, methods of operation or mathematical concepts in themselves, nor the laws or regulations, decisions of the courts, opinions of public bodies and official translations of such texts.

The Registration of Intellectual Property
May apply for registration of works, performances or productions, the authors of them and those who have any intellectual property right.

Registration is effective from the date of filing, except that this request be remedied because some data is missing or document required for processing. In these cases, the registration is effective when these improvements occur.

Registration applications are presented by providing the official application form in duplicate, copy identifying the work, performance or production, in each case documentation is required and proof of payment of the fee.

The work is presented to register as a general rule, on paper and properly bound with numbered pages. The record also supports the presentation in another media type when the type of work, extent and conditions of the parties should file using other methods. For example:

* If it’s literary and scientific works, appropriately bound copies are provided, with numbered pages shall be evidenced on the cover the title and author’s name (also in the case of comics and comics)

* In the case of databases, will present a specification structure that contains the criteria for system management and data access. It can accompany a recording of the basis for consideration by the Registry.

* Besides the works should provide the musical score. The letter may appear on a separate sheet.

* As to the plays, should be furnished a copy of the work duly bound, with pages numbered and indicate the title and author on the cover. If it is dramatic-musical works, also accompany the scores.

* In the accompanying choreography or pantomime copy of the work as a written description of stage movement. It also can provide any record.

* In the audiovisual identification should be accompanied as exemplary of the work, a descriptive summary. It can accompany a recording.

* In the case of sculptures, drawings, paintings, engravings and lithographs, as exemplary identification must be accompanied by a maximum of three photographs or copies that serve to identify the work.

The request is in any Provincial General Register Office for Intellectual Property, which practices the appropriate disposition from fees.

The Register is public, so anyone can request access to the data content that are registered. In these cases the record by making payment of the fee issue? Certificates? o? single notes?.

Direct consultation of the works archived in the registry is reserved exclusively to the holders of the rights over them.

The symbol ©
The owner or exclusive transferee of an exploitation right in a work or production protected by intellectual property law, can put his name before the ©? though the work or production is not registered and without having to obtain any authorization to do so. You must also indicate the place and year of disclosure of the work or production.

For copies of phonograms may also be putting a? (P)? the name of producer, also indicate the year of publication.

The Intellectual Property Registry, the legal deposit and ISBN
The Intellectual Property Registry aims to protect intellectual property rights and the same inscription on a voluntary basis.

The Legal Deposit gathers all the national bibliographic production: Publishers and producers are required to deposit a certain number of copies of works in the administration.

The I.S.B.N. (International Standard Book Number) is an international numerical code that editors should indicate on the books and pamphlets. Its function is to simplify the implementation of statistical operations and trade relations between booksellers and publishers.

My intention now is to have some legal advice it is important for any entrepreneur into account.

1) Hire a good lawyer.
And … yes, I must begin well, lest they think that is enough with these tips. The best advice I can give is to hire a good lawyer who understands the market in which they are operating. These tips will give you a basis to be understood as an agenda on how to talk to your lawyer, but not to dispense with his services.

2) Corporate Organization.
It is important to the papers neatly from the beginning. Especially if the idea is to seek funding. Although it seems more, plus the incorporation is advisable to sign a shareholders agreement to govern and secure coexistence today the possibility of some decisions tomorrow, such as dilution before a capital increase of income of a investor. “It is better to blush at first yellow later”.

3) legal protection of intangible assets.
The technology start-ups are creators of intangible assets. Since its brand, its design, code and maybe part of the technological solution they can be protected as intellectual property rights and their protection is very important to prevent further problems or the emergence of third-party copies. Also, if the company will build on technological development is important to analyze the possibility of obtaining a patent on this development. These alternatives ensure or increase, as appropriate, the value of the company, as always.

4) Firm contracts.
We all trust in people. We all believe that lawyers and contract negotiations seem to respond to the rhythm vetiginoso we do business. But it is a grave mistake to not capture the relationships in those contracts that address all aspects of the relationship. Many times when you go into detail required for the contract may or improve business or realize it would never work. If this happens, it will also set clear rules that allow the business to take its course smoothly.

5) Add to your workers.
This is essential for sleep. Internationally, the rules do not punish with fines registration workers who often can be quite onerous. Also, having people that came and help us build our project in the position it deserves, eliminates friction that might affect their performance. Finally, obviously the employees have not registered is an obstacle to investment.

6) Check the legality of your web
Although not created, there are rules that apply to the network. A page requires certain precautions and content. Not enough to copy the terms and conditions of a similar page and adapt “to eye”. Revision is needed that often must be conducted in parallel with developing the site, as some of the legal requirements can determine the forms or content owned the site.