Selecting and Forming Business Entities

Published April 2025

What’s the most critical part of starting a business? Choosing the right entity! Find out quickly if your client needs a corporation, partnership, or LLC and get the myriad, required state forms you’ll need to file. Then gain powerful expertise drafting effective articles and operating agreements.

• Includes relevant provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and all subsequent IRS guidance
• Hundreds of agency forms and custom, annotated, attorney-drafted operating agreements
• Evaluating entity choices
• Choosing and registering the business name
• Formation requirements for general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships, including annotated forms of partnership agreements
• Guidance on forming S, C, and close corporations
• Tricks of forming law and medical professional corporations, with complete articles, bylaws, and registration forms
• LLC formation, operation, and detailed short and long-form operating agreements
• Converting existing entities to LLCs
• When and why to use social purpose or benefit corporations