COMMON QUESTION:
Why Shouldn’t I Just Use a Low Cost Self-Help Service I Found Online (Like Legal Zoom) to Incorporate My Business?

This is a great question, and one that entrepreneurs ask us quite often. Low cost self-help “legal” services are not lawyers. By law, they cannot provide you with legal advice--they merely fill out and file forms at your direction. What I have consistently found in my practice is that these services tend get entrepreneurs into more trouble than they're worth. If you don't know what you are doing, it can cost you far more to fix a mistake than to work with our firm from the beginning. To use these services effectively, you really need to know what business entity you want to organize, for what reasons, in which jurisdiction, and the consequences when you do it wrong. The low cost self-help “legal” services will not give you that advice, nor will they help your company meet the corporate formality obligations required to keep your business in good standing once your business entity is formed.

When assembling your “team” for success, an ongoing relationship with a good business lawyer is essential. A good business lawyer will not only help you organize your business correctly and meet corporate formality obligations, but he or she will help make sure you are not making legal mistakes that can cost you thousands or derail your business.

A self-help legal service cannot do this for you.

Using a business organization lawyer at Furnari Scher to help organize your business is a low cost way to start one of the most important professional relationships in your entrepreneurial career.

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