Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business |  | Author: Fred Steingold Attorney
Publisher: NOLO
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Edition: 6
Pages: 482
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1413310982
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730652
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Publication Date: February 21, 2010
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Product Description
All the essential forms and step-by-step instructions a small business owner needs to start and run a business!
Like most small business owners, you probably can't afford to hire a lawyer to draft the legal documents you need in the course of your day-to-day business.
Now there's an affordable solution -- Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, which provides you with over 60 legal forms and documents and all the step-by-step instructions you need to use them.
This collection of essential legal and business documents helps you:
create contracts to buy, sell, rent or store goods
hire employees and consultants
protect your trade secrets
create noncompete agreements
prepare an LLC operating agreement
borrow and lend money
buy a business
lease commercial space
prepare corporate bylaws
record minutes of meetings
buy real estate
and much more
The 6th edition is updated with the latest legal documents, contracts and other forms. Includes all the information and instructions you need to complete and use your forms effectively. (20090205)
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 An easy-to-use "must-have" for small business owners and managers everywhere March 3, 2006
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
Now in a newly updated and expanded third edition, Legal Forms For Starting & Running A Small Business is a comprehensive resource packed with forms for getting a business off the ground, borrowing money, hiring employees, creating contracts, buying or leasing space, and much more. Legal Forms For Starting & Running A Small Business balances its wealth of reproducible documents with straightforward "how-to" instructions and advice, a new checklist to help first-timers, and an accompanying Windows and Mac compatible CD-ROM makes printing out the forms a breeze. An easy-to-use "must-have" for small business owners and managers everywhere.
Save thousands in legal fees with this double-whammy.... April 29, 2010
Bmommy (Midwest, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Finally some legal forms that are easy to understand for the average business person without a law degree! NOLO Press, with almost 40 years in providing excellent and trustworthy legal reference materials, has hit another one out of the park with Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
This book offers a money-saving and time-saving double-whammy:
1) the forms you can physically look at in the book, which for some of us, is way more convenient than pulling them up on the computer and opening them one at a time. You can easily browse through and see what you need quickly, along with expert legal information on the what, when, where, and how to use them to your best advantage, AND when to bring in an expert. Make sure that you take advantage of the explanatory materials with each form, as they are invaluable and time-saving in choosing and utilizing the form itself.
2)Then you can pop the CD into your computer, easily pull up what you need, and print them out yourself. Although the forms in the book itself are perforated for tear-out, I would highly recommend keeping them intact, in the book, for reference, and just printing out what you need from the CD. Also, the CD forms offer customization that will look much more professional than the photocopied and filled-in forms.
I never dreamed that I could actually handle BY MYSELF so much of the legal paperwork involved in running our small business. It took forever to pay off the legal bills for all of the regulatory forms, records, etc., over the years. Even something like the Minutes of the Board meetings could have been done for no cost if I'd had "Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business." This is the companion book, by the same author, Attorney Fred S. Steingold, to Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business, which I would also highly recommend.
Just What it Says it is- The Legal Forms for Starting a Business March 23, 2010
Terri J. Rice (WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Buy this book for the hard copy forms in the book and the CD (compatible with Windows and MAC) that you can also use to print your business forms.
This is NOT a how to start your own business book, these are the forms- with a lot of helpful information too. Much of this lawyering stuff can be done on your own with this book's forms, but thankfully, this book also tells you when you should hire a lawyer because of technical intricacies. For example. In dealing with real estate titles, "it's best to have an expert draft the mortgage or deed of trust that will secure the loan."
Legal jargon can change from state to state and this book clarifies that. For example, most states use the term 'articles of incorporation' but some (CT, DE, NY, OK) use the term 'certificate of incorporation,' Washington calls it 'document of certificate of formation,' and Tennessee refers to it simply as a 'charter.'
The book begins by explaining contract basics and then providing forms with step by step guidance for filling out the forms.
Forms included are for:
Forming Your Business
Running Your Corporation
Borrowing Money
Buying a Business
Leasing Space
Purchasing Real Estate
Buying, Selling, Manufacturing, Renting and Storing Goods
Hiring Employees and Independent Contractors
Extending Credit and Getting Paid
At 482 pages, you get a lot of information and forms and also included is the CD for computer printing all the forms.
This is worth a super rave. Let me explain April 22, 2010
Bob Feeser (Springfield, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every once in awhile you run across something that is surprisingly well designed and superbly organized. I thought this was just going to be another book. With over 60 of the most popular legal forms/contracts it is well worth the price.
Get a load of the way it is organized. The second half of the book is the standardized forms in a tear out format. So if you want to copy them on a copier, you just tear them out and go. Additionally, included in the back of the book is a CD Rom. On it are all the forms, but get this, they are in RTF format, and others in PDF format. So you can open any form you like, keeping all stored on your computer in the program called "Small Business Legal Forms" that autoloads when you insert the CDROM. So it shows up as a single program on your start>Programs menu, but as you click on each submenu it expands into the individual forms. So you don't have to pull the book off of the shelf unless you need further guidance. Now these forms in RTF (rich text format) are compatible with your word processor so you can edit them. So you open the file, and fill in the information according to the instructions and sample agreements in the book.
That takes me to the next feature and that is the book does a lot more than just list forms. For example creating a "non-compete" agreement has several pages of explanations, legal advice as to how to create one. What types of agreements hold up in court, and which ones don't; complete with examples. So you are getting way more than a simple book of forms, but rather a treatise on the legal and functional ramifications of using that law.
On the CD are also lots of forms in the PDF format. You can download the free reader from Adobe, and be able to edit these forms, as in fill in the blanks, but with the free reader version you can't save the files, but that is not a problem since you can always print them out already filled in for a professional look. That way the original file remains unchanged for future use.
So with this book you can create and customize your own forms. You may still want to seek the advice of qualified counsel if what you are trying to accomplish is one that has larger financial or ethical consequences. An alternative to the expense of full counsel is to use, and I have to avoid putting a dot com address in here, but you can access professional help by getting "just answers" in relation to regular pricing. That's worth raving about as well, but not relevant to the book review.
I have several of the NOLO books, and found them to be very useful. I was immediately impressed with this one though, due in part to its size. It is a full 8 1/2" by 11" book with almost 500 pages. A great buy and highly recommended reading if you are in business or generally have a need for legal forms.
If they missed anything, I can't think of it!! March 26, 2010
Courtland J. Carpenter (Fort Wayne, Indiana United States)
This is definately not a book you'll curl up with in your reading chair and read, but it is definatly a good book to have. The forms are not as narrow as the title of the book suggests. It talks about legal forms for starting and running a small business, but since it seems to cover every possible eventuality of owning a small business including buying land, buildings, goods, leases, partnerships, loans, etc. It would however fail to be much of a book if it were all sample forms (of which there are many). What makes the book useful is a fully catagorize set of chapters that each explains the category of forms found post chapter. It's nice to see the paper copies of the forms, but so you don't use them all up, it has a CD that has all the forms in easy to fill in electronically and fill out to sign and use.
One of the nicer things about the text of the chapters is all the tips and hints of what to document when you do these forms. For instance in the lease section they mention to watch out for how the landlord measures the space. Some measure from the center wall, while others even start at the outside walls, counting the wall thickness in the calculation making you pay for a whole lot of unused space. Useful tidbits like this are in gray highlighted panels so they look like something the reader needs to check out before moving on. One more really helpful thing is all the sample lines put in the form filling explaination. How many times have you read a form, and not known what that fill-in blank is looking for? If you could just see an example someone else used you'd know, and thats what this book provided in hundreds of cases.
So what else is there that's useful in this book? Well, when you have a book you are gonna use as a reference, as you build a small business to take care of all your documentation duties, a good look-up section is a must. You can read the form categories in the table of context, but this book took the time to make a comprehensive index so if you can think of a topic this book covers, you can look it up there and find the page faster. I'm not starting a business, but I have use for many of these forms, so I recommend this book to cover a lot of everyday legal and document needs. Plus given the forms were made to be designed as legal documents, they may one day bail you out of a bad "gentleman's" agreement I know a lot of people get into and later regret. It's amazing what different ideas two people can walk away from a bargaining table thinking, and they only diverge more as time goes by. Fix it right get it in writing!
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