From opening day to tax day, this is the allinone book you need! Small business owners are regularly confronted by a bewildering array of legal questions and problems. Ignoring them can lead to disaster but with lawyers typically charging $200 $300 an hour, calling one to answer routine legal questions can be a fast track to the poorhouse. This edition is completely updated and revised to provide the latest regulations, tax numbers and business realities. It also provides a startup checklist, an expanded discussion about choosing a business structure, updates to bankruptcy law and much more.

Product Description:  Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business 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: ...read more

Product Description: The plain-English resource every employer, manager and HR professional needs. New laws affect every aspect of being an employer -- from interviewing and hiring, to handling employee benefits to firing. The most complete guide to your legal rights and responsibilities, The Employer's Legal Handbook shows you how to comply with the most recent workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits...read more

Product Description: All the legal and practical advice small employers need to ensure that hiring an employee—from obtaining an EIN to screening applicants to complying with payroll tax and other obligations—goes without a glitch.

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Product Description: This practical handbook explains how to analyze space needs, find the ideal location and then get the best possible terms. Learn how to: determine the real cost of renting; keep future rent at manageable levels; get the most out of your broker and attorney; suggest alternatives to hefty security deposits;allocate responsibility and cost of fixing up your space; negotiate flexibility to expand, renew or leave early; ensure costs are shared fairly among tenants; avoid dealing with costly code compliance and clean-ups; save your lease if you can't live up to it now and the...read more

Product Description: Selling your business may just be the most important transaction you will ever make. Let Sell Your Business show you how to make the sale, make a profit and protect yourself legally and financially. This book gives you all the information, checklists, legal forms and practical advice you'll need to sell your business, guiding you through the process from beginning to end...read more

Product Description: Unless you operate a business out of your home, or own the building from which your shingle dangles, you need to lease commercial space. For the typical owner, this process can be daunting--and cluttered with costly, potential pitfalls...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides legal advice for the small businessperson, including forms for preparing corporate bylaws, protecting trade secrets, and settling disputes

A comprehensive resource that offers daily legal advice to employers about hiring, firing, and everything in between includes guidelines for safe hiring practices, compensation, benefits, taxes, insurance, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Original.

Product Description: A guide to the ins and outs of Michigan law.