{"id":982,"date":"2017-03-15T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesslaw.smithrayl.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2025-03-09T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:13:49","slug":"business-lawyers-accountants-and-insurance-brokers-and-the-1908-chicago-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/business-lawyers-accountants-and-insurance-brokers-and-the-1908-chicago-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Lawyers, Accountants, and Insurance Brokers — and the 1908 Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written before about the need for the owners of small businesses to have at least three professionals:\u00a0 a business lawyer, a tax accountant, and an insurance broker. Because it has been a while, and\u00a0because the advice is so important, I decided to write about it\u00a0again. Thinking\u00a0about a group of three professionals led me to consider analogies to other groups of three people.<\/p>\n

The first thing that came to mind was the traditional English nursery rhyme:<\/a><\/p>\n

Rub a dub dub,<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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