Author Profile

Eliot Wagonheim

Eliot Wagonheim

Phone: (410) 584-1110
303 International Circle, Suite 390 Hunt Valley Maryland 21030 United States

About

As an author on Bottom Line Business Insights, Eliot Wagonheim shares his more than 20 years of experience in commercial litigation and other general corporate matters. Mr. Wagonheim has also authored several books, and this past experience shows in his writing on his firm’s, blog. The firm, Wagonheim & Associates, deals with a variety of commercial legal issues, and Mr. Wagonheim’s experience shows through in the topics he takes up on the blog.

Practice Areas

* Mergers & Acquisitions * Government Contracting * Incorporation * General Corporate Litigation

Professional Associations

* Maryland State Bar Association * MSBA Professionalism Committee

Published Writings

* The Art of Getting Paid (1996) * Get Your Money: How to Protect Your Business Without Losing Your Customers (2000) * The Commercial Banker’s Pocket Guide (2008)

Recent Articles

Strength at the Broken Places

Eliot Wagonheim

March 20, 2012 12:00

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” So wrote Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. I think businesses are like that, too. Scan down the membership list of your trade association or take a moment to look at the businesses passing...

A Short Post about Long Contracts

Eliot Wagonheim

March 13, 2012 15:00

The Employee will receive 10% of net profits realized on all contracts delivered. Final payment will be rendered upon completion of work to the Owner’s satisfaction. Insubordination will be grounds for termination with cause. Just about anyone who has ever managed a business...

The Benefits of a Flashy Thingy

Eliot Wagonheim

March 06, 2012 15:18

  Yesterday, a client asked me for a neuralizer. Of course, he didn’t call it that. (And why can’t they ever use its correct name?) He used the term Will Smith tagged it with in Men in Black – the “flashy thingy.” By either term, it was the...

The Luxury of Long Term Thinking

Eliot Wagonheim

February 28, 2012 17:12

In the early nineteenth century, around 4,000 Quaker families ran 74 Quaker British banks and more than 200 Quaker companies. As Deborah Cadbury writes in her book Chocolate Wars: "For the Quaker capitalists of the nineteenth century, the idea that wealth-creation was for personal gain...

Iron Fist in a Latex Glove

Eliot Wagonheim

February 21, 2012 12:00

By Michael Lentz, Wagonheim Law Attorney As a business lawyer with cerebral palsy who generally uses a wheelchair to get around, I can see both sides of the “reasonable accommodation” for disabilities debate in a way that few people can. I know what it’s like to grip a folder in...