As a small business owner, you can't afford to farm paperwork and contracts out to a lawyer--you have to deal with them yourself. With Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, you can act with confidence.

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:

• write contracts
• prepare corporate bylaws
• prepare an LLC operating agreement
• buy a business
• hire employees and consultants
• create noncompete agreements
• protect your trade secrets
• record minutes of meetings
• lease commercial space
• buy real estate
• borrow or lend money, and
• much more.

The 11th 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).