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

by Fred S. Steingold Attorney, Editors of Nolo

Overview

Create solid contracts for your business

As a small business owner, you can’t afford to farm your routine paperwork and contracts out to a lawyer.

With Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, you can handle a wide range of business forms and agreements on your own.

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:

• buy and sell goods
• complete forms and agreements to start your business
• create website policies and agreements
• lease commercial space
• hire employees and consultants
• buy real estate
• create noncompete agreements
• borrow or lend money

The 13th edition has been thoroughly reviewed and updated by Nolo’s experts and provides the most up-to-date legal information for small businesses.

The Editors of Nolo include over 20 editors and a team of researchers. Most of Nolo’s editors left careers as practicing lawyers in favor of furthering the company’s mission: Getting legal information into the hands of people who need it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413331943
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	08/27/2024
Edition description:	13th ed.
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	1,043,471
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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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