For Immediate Release
Lin Hanson Speaks to ISBA Business Planners

August 27, 2003 -- On Wednesday, August 27^th, Lin Hanson, together with Belleville attorney George Marifian, conducted a 3 hour "practice skills course" for over 100 members of the Illinois State Bar Association at the Association's Chicago Headquarters. The topic was "Advising Small Business." Lin spoke on choosing the appropriate business entity (corporation -vs- LLC -vs- partnership), protecting personal assets from the claims of business creditors, tax issues, and issues in forming corporations and LLCs. He gave particular attention to the over 99,000 LLCs formed in Illinois since passage of the original LLC act in 1994, and the new, Delaware series LLC. In addition to his talk, Lin prepared and distributed a 150 page text. Copies of materials and a video tape of the talk are available from the ISBA through its Web site at http://www.isba.org for $199.00.