Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business

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.

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.