Goldman & Minton, P.C. | Baltimore, Maryland

G&M advises K12 Enterprise on the acquisition of Virginia-based Software Firm

Goldman & Minton has advised Baltimore-based K12 Enterprise LLC on the acquisition of Sartox, LLC, a Virginia-based software firm specializing in business solutions for K-12 public schools.

K12 Enterprise is Microsoft's leading enterprise-grade financial and human resource management software for K-12 school systems. Built within Microsoft Dynamics, K12 Enterprise was created with the specific financial management, HR, payroll and state reporting functionality required by school systems nationwide.

G&M Approved as Class Counsel in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case

On November 28, 2011 U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Garbis conditionally certified a settlement class of about 8,500 people in Maryland and D.C. in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case filed by Thomas Minton and co-counsel Bernard Kennedy of The Kennedy Law Firm. The case arises from a form collection letter sent by a Maryland law firm to people who owed money to credit card issuers, banks, and other consumer lenders. In its standard collection letter, the law firm informed the consumers that they had overdue “balances” that included legal costs and fees.

YUK! Was Your Car Formerly a Rental Car?

In a recent article in a trade magazine, rental car operations managers offered some wild stories about their worst clean-up jobs: maggots, deer parts, boa constrictors, human blood, rodents, urine, dead fish. Of course, rental cars are known for “hard use;” that is, the cars’ drivers have little or no concern for wear and tear and they drive the cars accordingly.

A New Location for Goldman & Minton, P.C.

As of December 1, 2011, Goldman & Minton, P.C. has moved its offices to Union Mill:

1500 Union Avenue
Suite 2300
Baltimore, Maryland 21211

The phone, facsimile and e-mail are the same.

We look forward to welcoming our clients and colleagues to our new offices.

Business For Artists: The 10 Basics

Artists create. To live well and prosper, artists must sell what they create. Selling art can be as painstaking as creating it. Therefore, many successful artists enlist the help of professionals to tend to the selling details. Other artists handle the business details themselves.
Artists need to protect themselves and their art to profit from it. Whether an artist sells a single piece, works with an agent or licenses work for mass production, there are business decisions that need to be made. Here are 10 basic business considerations for artists.