EP203: Jeffrey Love - A Lawyer’s Tips On How To Protect Your Bookkeeping Business

Michael Palmer: You want to protect yourself and your business because this is hopefully, you know, one of your, one of your clients, and you don't want to expose the rest of your business to something that you really didn't have a part to. You were just providing bookkeeping services. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be A fantastic one. Our guest is a corporate lawyer and partner of the law firm Gibbs Giddens in California. Jeffrey Love, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. It's great to have you, and I'm looking forward to this conversation. It's a timely conversation around understanding the law in a way. And before we get into all of that, Jeffrey, please tell us about your career journey leading up to this point.

Jeffrey B. Love: Sure. So I always wanted to be kind of behind the scenes in business. I had the entrepreneur bug kind of earlier on, but went to college, decided, you know, I really want to learn about the law and be able to, you know, be a better kind of businessman, understand contracts, understand risk and exposure. So went to law school, never really with the intention of doing litigation and fighting, but more of just kind of educating myself, you know, to get into business. And after graduating law school, my plan was, you know, maybe be a corporate lawyer for a couple years and then go off and start my own business. And I just, I kind of fell in love with the law. I loved helping different business owners grow and scale their businesses and help protect them against different risks that they may be exposed to. So I never actually ended up going the business route because I felt like I was better suited to help all those different business owners. So I joined my firm, Gibbs Giddin. I'm now the co-chair of our business law and real estate law departments where I focus really on helping business owners of all sizes, from startups to middle market companies and entrepreneurs scale their businesses, help them negotiate and draft contracts and essential business