Here you'll find the forms you need to start and grow your business. These documents comes with thorough, plain-English instructions to help you:

• create customer and vendor contracts
  
• prepare corporate bylaws
  
• prepare an LLC operating agreement
  
• hire employees and consultants
  
• create commission agreements for sales representatives
  
• protect your trade secrets
  
• extend credit and get paid
  
• lease commercial space
  
• buy real estate
  
• borrow 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.

With Downloadable Forms
Download and customize more than 65 forms to help you start and run your small business (details inside).

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.