Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business

As a small business owner, you can't afford to hire a lawyer to draft all of the legal documents you need in the course of day-to-day operations. With Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, you can confidently handle a wide range of your business's contracts and agreements yourself.

Here you'll find the forms you need to start and grow your business. Each document in this collection comes with step-by-step instructions to help you:

• form your business


• prepare corporate bylaws


• draft customer and vendor contracts


• hire employees and consultants


• extend credit and get paid


• protect your trade secrets


• lease commercial space


• buy real estate


• lend or borrow money, and


• create website policies and agreements.

The 14th edition has been thoroughly reviewed and updated by Nolo's team of experts and offers the most up-to-date legal information for small businesses.