Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business: 65 Essential Agreements, Contracts, Leases & Letters

by Fred S. Steingold Attorney, Editors of Nolo

Overview

Most small business owners can't afford to hire a lawyer to draft the legal documents they need in the course of day-to-day business. Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business is a cost-effective solution that provides more than 60 legal forms and documents—and all the step-by-step instructions needed to use them.

This collection of essential legal and business documents helps you:

• create contracts
• prepare an LLC operating agreement
• prepare corporate bylaws
• hire employees and consultants
• buy a business
• borrow and lend money
• protect your trade secrets
• create noncompete agreements
• lease commercial space
• record minutes of meetings
• buy real estate, and
• much more
  

This edition is updated with the latest legal documents, contracts, and other forms you need to run your business smoothly, along with up-to-date best practices for business owners and managers.Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business includes all the information and instructions you need to complete and use your forms effectively.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413329513
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Edition description:	Twelfth Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Attorney Fred S. Steingold was an expert in real estate law and business law and the author of several Nolo books, including Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business and The Employer's Legal Handbook.

Editors of Nolo
Nolo’s editorial department includes more than a dozen legal editors and a full-time legal researcher, who collectively have more than 100 years’ experience turning legal jargon into plain English. Most of our editors gave up careers as practicing lawyers in favor of furthering Nolo’s mission: Getting legal information into the hands of the people who really need it.

All Nolo legal editors specialize in certain areas of the law, and many are recognized as national experts in their field. They write books, edit books by outside authors, and in their spare time write online articles and blogs, develop legal forms, and create the legal content of Nolo software.

Table of Contents

Your Small Business Legal Companion 1. Contract Basics 2. Forming Your Business 3. Running Your Corporation 4. Borrowing Money 5. Buying a Business 6. Leasing Space 7. Purchasing Real Estate 8. Buying, Selling, Manufacturing, Renting, and Storing Goods 9. Hiring Employees and Independent Contractors 10. Extending Credit and Getting Paid Appendixes Index

Interviews

Attorney Fred Steingold practiced law for over 40 years in Ann Arbor Michigan, where he was well known and highly regarded by the local legal community. Fred wrote and updated several best-selling titles for Nolo, including Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business, Nolo's Guide to Single-Member LLCs, and The Employer's Legal Handbook. Fred passed away in 2017.

Editorial Reviews

"Balances its wealth of reproducible documents with straightforward 'how-to' instructions and advice..." The Bookwatch

"Two things make this work exceptionally valuable. First, the forms and contracts are written in straightforward language [and] all of the forms can be found with the book." American Reference Books Annual

"Provides instructions for completing the contracts required when forming a corporation, borrowing money, buying a business, leasing an office, hiring employees and selling goods." Reference & Research Book News

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