The beginning of the year is a great time to take stock of legal issues affecting your business. A good way to start is to develop a Legal Self-Audit checklist, which lists most of the legal issues impacting most businesses. Don’t have one of your own? No worries. Click here for a general purpose list.  While some of the issues may not apply to you, many will. The main purpose of this is to avoid being “blindsided” by legal issues of which you were unaware. Just remember, in the eyes of the courts and regulators, “ignorance of the law is no excuse.”