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Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business

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Save time and money by doing it yourself

As a small business owner, you can’t afford to farm paperwork and contracts out to a lawyer—you have to deal with them yourself. With Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, you can act with confidence.

Here you’ll find the forms you need to start and grow your business. Each document comes with thorough, plain-English, line-by-line instructions to help you:
  • write contracts
  • record minutes of meetings
  • hire employees and consultants
  • borrow or lend money
  • protect your trade secrets
  • buy a business
  • create noncompete agreements
  • lease commercial space
  • prepare corporate bylaws
  • buy real estate, and
  • prepare an LLC operating
  • much more. agreement
The 9th edition has been thoroughly reviewed and updated by Nolo’s experts, and provides the most up-to-date legal information for small businesses.

With Downloadable Forms Download and customize more than 65 forms to help you start and run your small business at Nolo.com (details inside).
LanguageEnglish
PublisherNOLO
Release dateJan 25, 2016
ISBN9781413322262
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Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
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Fred S. Steingold

Until his death in 2017, Attorney Fred S. Steingold was a practicing attorney in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His main practice areas were real estate law and business law. He is the author of several Nolo books, including Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business and The Employer's Legal Handbook.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have come across no better small business start-up resource than the 'Nolo Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business'. Other readable books on the topic tend towards generality or fluff. This book answers your questions and the questions you didn't know you had.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another in this excellent series of books on everyday legal issues for consumers. In this volume, legal guide for small business the reader is led throughout the process of starting and running a business. from planning to zoning a checklist every legal issue is clearly discussed.I run and small business and this book alerted me to legal issues I had not thought of. As always with this publisher you can updated information on their web site. I highly recommend this for all small business agencies, public libraries and individuals.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This Nolo guide does a very good job explaining the legal issues most likely to confront a small business owner. It covers the formation of the business and the paperwork necessary to to get that done, and it doesn't just cover entity selection either. They cover purchasing a business or franchise, and some of the research necessary to making a sound purchase decision. They go into detail on how to deal with local and State issues related to starting a business. It also covers how to deal with employees, vendors, customers, insurers as well as how to deal with legal disputes. While the information is very general, it does a good job covering the bases for most product focused and service focused small businesses.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    NOLO books are the best for legal reference. Because they are reference books you'll never need all of it. Legal Guide for Starting and Running a Small Business is the same. It will help you decide what kind of business you are going to set-up; Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation, or Limited Liability Corp. After that there are sections broken down to help you create each form of business. Obviously if you are setting up a Sole Proprietorship you won't need the legal advice on Corporations.In easy to understand terms it explains everything from getting licenses to franchises to hiring to small claims court. Where they feel you may need more explanation for a situation they tell you which other NOLO book can help you. This book is really a launching point, and other NOLO books can help you with more in-depth expertise.The Law in the Real World excerpts are exceptionally good for seeing real world applications of the legaleses. This book does not come with a CD of legal forms. As far as I can tell if you want the forms mentioned in the book you have to pay to download them from NOLO. However if you register your book you'll get a code for 15% off.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The four previous reviewers have said most of what I planned to say. I've been a university professor teaching small business management for nearly 20 years. This is a thorough treatment of the subject that makes a good reference, especially for those just starting. Do not expect to find anything that strays from the direct subject however. Perhaps the most useful element of this 12th Edition is the inclusion of some implications of the Affordable Care Act. I would certainly recommend the book for exactly what it is: a legal guide for starting and running a small business.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program and every time I get a NOLA book I feel like I've won a prize - they are that good.My husband and I are both working on setting up our own businesses and the legalities of it are some of the scarier parts of what we need to do.We're not lawyers, we're just regular people, so we are afraid we won't do everything we should or that we will waste money doing things that are unnecessary.Fred S. Steingold, an attorney and the author of the book, covers everything from registering a name to having to go to court and all the stuff in between. The language is clear and easy to understand and definitely will be a good reference to use in addition to speaking with your own business lawyer.My favorite thing in this book are the sections called "Law in the Real World." These side-bars take the information presented and show you in various ways how it applies to a normal business situation. Very helpful for driving home complicated ideas.If you have a business, want to have a business or just want to learn more about how businesses work - give the Legal Guide for Starting and Running a Small Business a try. You'll be glad you did.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    NOLO provides a comprehensive, yet easy to read, reference book that is ideal for small business owners. As a small business owner and attorney I found the content of this book to be well researched, balanced, and comprehensive. The book includes frequent real life examples to illustrate important points, as well as a user-friendly format. I found the book to be an excellent overview and guide to small business legal issues. I would recommend it to friends and family.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of Nolo Press' flagship titles, now in its 12th edition (this review). Originally published in 1992, this mature work has been continually updated and revised and is probably the definitive legal guide for those wanting to set up their own small business or franchise. This is a comprehensive legal guide, reference work, and "how to" book covering about every relevant issue from choosing a name for the business, to representing yourself in small claims court.The book's biggest deficit is with the specific laws, rules, and regulations of individual states. Some topics are covered state by state (e.g., Drug and Alcohol Testing Laws), but comprehensive state coverage of all issues is probably impractical for any work of this type. I would recommend also purchasing works that are specific to your own state (e.g., "Starting and Operating a Business in Tennessee") which are likely to reference your individual state's laws and regulations, as well as have copies of business forms pertinent to your locale. Additionally, Nolo (and other publishers) will have titles which cover specific issues in greater depth for the small business. Should you decide to set up a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), Nolo itself publishes at least three books on that topic alone (Form Your Own Limited Liability Company; Your Limited Liability Company: an Operating Manual; Nolo's Quick LLC). Consider purchasing these, or other publishers' works, to supplement the coverage of this Legal Guide.The single appendix, "Checklist for Starting a Small Business," is a concise and extremely useful outline for all issues relevant to actually setting up a business. The index was serviceable, but could be better. The back cover states that the book "provides information on new tax credits ... under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act". The index was no help at all in locating where that information resides in the book - it's a "tip" on page 134 entitled "Your business may qualify for a health care tax credit." This is a small, but I think relevant, quibble. I admit to being a bit of an "index snob."In addition to individual purchases by those who have a small business, or are interested in setting one up, this is almost a mandatory purchase for public libraries. In today's economy, an increasing number of individuals are by choice and necessity, finding themselves needing guidance in setting up their own business. This is one of the best resources for those considering, or beginning, that process.