{"id":36236,"date":"2024-10-11T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/?p=36236"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:05:33","slug":"bizgrow-conference-offers-free-legal-help-to-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/bizgrow-conference-offers-free-legal-help-to-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"BizGrow conference offers free legal help to entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwlp.com\/news\/local-news\/hampden-county\/bizgrow-conference-offers-free-legal-help-to-entrepreneurs\/\">WWLP.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BizGrow conference offers free legal help to entrepreneurs\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQ4bsiO-fGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) \u2013 Current and aspiring small business owners are getting a helping hand from a new local partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group \u201cLawyers For Civil Rights\u201d has teamed up with the Springfield City Library to host a \u201cBizGrow Conference\u201d Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event helped local entrepreneurs network with other business owners, as well as receive free legal advice and other resources. Organizers said the event will help small business owners avoid common pitfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Executive Director Ivan Espinosa-Madrigal told 22News, \u201cThere are many questions that entrepreneurs face, how am I supposed to classify employees? Should they be classified as independent contractors or otherwise? And more importantly, there are complex issues around taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first time this BizGrowth event has been held in Springfield. Lawyers for Civil Rights hope to hold a similar event in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current and aspiring small business owners are getting a helping hand from a new local partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,102,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-adults","category-news-central-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36259,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36236\/revisions\/36259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldlibrary.org\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}