Want to take advantage of economic opportunities in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Attorney Tom McGlaughlin has the business formation you need, at a price you can afford.
Harrisburg is not shy about trying to attract more companies and encourage entrepreneurs to start businesses in the area. However, incentives alone do not make a business successful. To take advantage of such offers and build a business that will not fall apart at the first sign of trouble, you need a solid legal foundation.
That is where business formation law comes into play. With the help of an attorney, you will be able to set up the legal paperwork that every business is built on: from the documents that cement your dream into a legal entity to the contracts that allow you to work with others and hire those you need.
In Harrisburg and throughout south and central Pennsylvania, such work can be done with the help of attorney Tom McGlaughlin, whose approach is as straightforward as your business wants to be. He offers exactly the help you need to get started and enough legal advice to minimize your chance of ending up in court.
Fifteen years ago, Harrisburg was feeling the squeeze after one mayor’s corruption and endless big projects and collection investments left the city drowning in debt. But the city has turned things around since then, revenue is back up, and the city has learned the error of trying to rely too much on big spending projects alone.
Instead, the city is banking on small businesses and entrepreneurs, and hoping the bigger fish will be drawn in by tax incentives and state-wide plans like PA SITES that Governor Shapiro has been spearheading.
Unfortunately, actually opening a business or starting a company or venture in Pennsylvania is still often harder than in neighboring states. Regulatory hurdles, convoluted registration procedures, and not-always-favorable employee protections and laws make it difficult, or even risky to open a business and take advantage of all those offers, especially if you don’t have a good lawyer on your side already.
The biggest companies have their own lawyers, and some even have their own law firms. It can feel like the odds are stacked against you as a smaller business or someone trying to create one. However, attorneys like Tom McGlaughlin know what it is like; they are small business owners and entrepreneurs, too, after all.
As a result, the services they offer to small business creators and owners are adapted to your needs:
To avoid entangling it helplessly with your own finances, you need to give your dream a legal life of its own. In the process of creating such a legal entity, you need to make a number of important decisions about ownership structure, management, and more.
From a sole proprietorship to a corporation, how you set up your business will have significant consequences in terms of its strengths, weaknesses, and adaptability. Deciding which one of the many entity structures available in Harrisburg is just the first step, though it is certainly one you should not take without consulting a lawyer.
Actually setting that entity up optimally to protect both it and you is where an experienced lawyer becomes essential. With Tom McGlaughlin, you can sit down, talk about what your hopes are for the company, and later sign it into existence secure in the knowledge that it was built to fit your needs and objectives.
Pennsylvania is, for better or for worse, somewhat infamous for the many regulatory hoops companies need to jump through. While some big businesses would certainly profit even more with fewer of them, many also help protect smaller business owners. The key is to navigate them well from the start and turn them to your advantage.
Getting a lawyer to help you identify the applicable regulations and then set up your enterprise to comply with the relevant rules is the smartest first step you can take. The better you set everything up from the start, the less likely you are to run afoul of costly enforcement or sanctions later, and the more likely you are to benefit from the protections and opportunities they might also provide.
Chances are your business will not exist in a vacuum; it will need to interact with other companies and individuals, and it may even need to pay some of them (or be paid by them). Whenever money is involved, you do not want to take the risk of being cheated, or having an employee try to clean you out, or challenge the legality of their work.
This means getting strong contracts from the start. Get guidance from an experienced Harrisburg lawyer, like Tom McGlaughlin, to ensure that your contracts do not leave you vulnerable later to lawsuits, while still allowing you to enforce the terms of the contract should your partners let you down.
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In the end, the role of a good lawyer is to defend you in court, but the role of an excellent lawyer is to keep you from ever having to go to court in the first place, and that is what Tom McGlaughlin’s business formation services are all about.
To seize the increasingly attractive Harrisburg incentives and advantages for small businesses, and finally make your dream a profitable reality, reach out to North Star Legal Services LLC and ask for Tom McGlaughlin’s business formation guidance.
To set up a consultation, just call (717) 990-7178 or contact our law firm online. We’ll make sure your business formation gets done right from the start.
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