Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business

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).