Protect your business with key legal
documents
When you start and run a business, most of the legal work involved simply
requires reliable information and the proper forms -- and with Quicken
Lawyer 2003 Business Deluxe, you'll get everything you need to get the job
done and save money on legal fees.
Completely updated, Quicken Lawyer now
provides:
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over 130 contracts, forms, letters, checklists and more
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over 60 interactive forms -- create essential documents
with simple step-by-step interviews
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the complete text of Nolo's bestselling book, Leasing
Space for Your Small Business
Quicken Lawyer brings these six Nolo bestsellers
together in one easy-to-use software package:
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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business
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Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business
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The Employer's Legal Handbook
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Leasing Space for Your Small Business
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Tax Savvy for Small Business
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Marketing Without Advertising
With over 130 legal forms, you'll have access to the
documents you need, when you need them. You can also take notes, create
bookmarks and read real-world examples of situations you're likely to face.
Need more details? Quicken Lawyer helps you:
#1 Plan for Success
Select the best legal structure for your business, draft solid business
contracts, get required documents and minimize the chances of legal disputes.
#2 Get the Legal Forms You Need
Choose from over 130 essential forms, letters, checklists and more. Many of
them are interactive -- just take a step-by-step interview, print the results
and you're done!
#3 Build Your Team
Hire workers, develop sensible personnel polices, minimize employee lawsuits,
stay out of trouble with the government and safely terminate workers when
necessary.
#4 Get the Word Out
Implement efficient and inexpensive marketing plans, price products
for success, market online and attract customers and clients.
#5 Become Tax Savvy
Identify deductions allowed by the IRS, write off long-term business assets
and minimize the chance of an audit.
#6 Negotiate a Lease
Figure out how much space you need, choose a good location, negotiate
the best possible terms, bargain for lower security deposits, share costs for
repairs and expansion, and more!
Not compatible with Quicken Family Lawyer or Quicken
Business Lawyer.
Table
of Contents
Software User Manual
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Getting Started
Part 3: Working With Quicken Lawyer Document Files
Part 4. Using the Document List to Create and Open Your Documents
Part 5: Getting Help From Quicken Lawyer
Part 6: Creating Documents: The Quicken Lawyer Interviews
Part 7: Displaying and Printing Your Completed Documents
Part 8: Using the Quicken Lawyer Book Reader
Part 9: Problems Running Quicken Lawyer
Appendix 1: Menus
Appendix 2: Keyboard Commands
Appendix 3: Documents and Forms
Legal Guides
This software contains the complete text of the following
Nolo books, as well as a step by step interview for creating dozens of forms:
Starting and Running Your Small Business
Introduction
1. Which Legal Form Is Best for Your Business?
2. Structuring a Partnership Agreement
3. Creating a Corporation
4. Creating a Limited Liability Company
5. Developing a Buy-Sell Agreement
6. Naming Your Business and Products
7. Licenses and Permits
8. Tax Basics for the Small Business
9. Raising Money for Your Business
10. Buying a Business
11. Franchises: How Not to Get Burned
12. Insuring Your Business
13. Negotiating a Favorable Lease
14. Home-Based Businesses
15. Employees and Independent Contractors
16. The Importance of Excellent Customer Relations
17. Legal Requirements for Dealing With Customers
18. Cash, Checks, and Credit Cards
19. Extending Credit and Getting Paid
20. Put It In Writing: Small Business Contracts
21. The Financially Troubled Business
22. Resolving Legal Disputes
23. Representing Yourself in Small Claims Court
24. Lawyers and Legal Research
Appendix
Legal Forms for Small
Business
Introduction
1. Contract Basics
2. Forming Your Business
3. Running Your Corporation
4. Borrowing Money
5. Buying a Business
6. Leasing Space
7. Purchasing Real Estate
8. Buying, Selling, Renting and Storing Goods
9. Hiring Employees and Independent Contractors
The Employer's Legal
Handbook
1. Hiring
2. Personnel Practices
3. Wages and Hours
4. Employee Benefits
5. Taxes
6. Family and Medical Leave
7. Health and Safety
8. Illegal Discrimination
9. Workers With Disabilities
10. Termination
11. Independent Contractors
12. Unions
13. Lawyers and Legal Research
Appendix
Leasing Space for you Small
Business
Introduction
1. What Kind of Space Do You Need?
2. Looking for Space and Using Brokers
3. Evaluating the Space and the Landlord
4. Understanding the True Size and Cost of the Rental
5. Setting the Stage to Negotiate
6. Your Negotiation Strategy
7. Lease Basics
8. The Length of Your Lease
9. Rent
10. Security Deposits
11. Improvements and Alterations
12. Maintenance, Utilities and Code Compliance
13. Parking, Signs, Landlord's Entry & Security
14. Option to Renew or Sublet and Other Flexibility Clause
15. Insurance Clauses
16. Breaking the Lease, Disputes and "Attorney" Fees
17. Foreclosures, Condemnations, Guarantors and Other Clauses
Marketing Without
Advertising
Introduction
1. Advertising: The Last Choice in Marketing
2. Personal Recommendations: The First Choice in Marketing
3. The Physical Appearance of Your Business
4. Pricing
5. The Treatment of People Around You
6. Openness -- The Basis of Trust
7. Deciding How to Educate Potential Customers
8. How to Let Customers Know Your Business Is Excellent
9. Helping Customers Find You
10. Customer Recourse
11. Marketing on the Internet
12. Designing and Implementing Your Marketing Plan
13. The Last Step: Creating a Calendar of Events
Appendix
Computer: Pentium 133 (Pentium II 300 recommended)
Operating System: Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
Memory: 32 MB RAM (64 MB RAM recommended)
Hard Disk Space: 45 MB (56 MB to install)
Monitor: Super VGA (800x600) with 256 colors (16-bit color
recommended)
CD-ROM Drive: 2X speed
Internet Connection: 14.4 Kbps modem required to access
online features (56 Kbps or higher recommended)
Printer: Any printer supported by Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / Me
/ XP
Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher (v.5.0 included on CD)
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