Corporate Law Lawyers in the USA

Building a business is both an exciting and extremely stressful time and selecting the appropriate legal form for your business can be a difficult choice. In California you have five different types of business entities to choose from and forming the correct business entity at the beginning will save you both time and money.

How can you protect your assets against creditors as a film maker?

Private companies in going public transactions that intend to be quoted on the OTC Markets OTCQB must first become reporting with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). This is typically accomplished by the private company filing a Form S-1 registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

Most businesses want to classify their workers as contractors not employees. Contractors are cheaper and easier than employees. You don’t withhold taxes for contractors, nor do you pay benefits, workers compensation or unemployment insurance, nor must you comply with the wage & hour laws (including overtime) for contractors.

In this article, the author gives some thoughts on preparing to sell your solo medical practice.

This article gives an outline of how to bring a new accountant into an accounting practice. The author goes from common sense to legal advice, from the accountant’s purchase of ownership to the parties’ exit strategy and unwinding of the relationship.

If you are in a group accounting practice, you might wonder, “Can I or another accountant in this practice set up a competing practice?” “Will a non-competition agreement prevent it?” These questions are crucial both to the existing group and the accountant who would set up the competing practice.

A little over a year ago on January 1, 2012, California’s new corporate laws went into effect broadening the choices for corporations to include the following two new corporate entities: Benefit Corporations and Flexible Purpose Corporations. The effect of the new legislation was to allow companies that wish to pursue, both, social and economic objectives the ability to formally include those missions into their articles of incorporation.

In this article, the author first discusses when an accountant is a contractor as opposed to an employee. Second, he looks at the essential terms of an accountant employment contract and an accountant independent contractor agreement.

This article gives you a legal compliance checklist for your accountancy corporation.