Choosing an Entity Form
- Oregon Business XpressOnline portal gathering resources across state agencies to provide a one-stop shop for starting, expanding, and operating a business in Oregon.
- Bloomberg Law: Entity Formation Toolkit
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A comprehensive source of practical guidance and tools for forming a business entity. Particularly useful are the overviews, checklists, and forms of various agreements. - Practical Law: Formation & Starting Up
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Collection of Practical Law materials regarding entity selection and other issues for businesses starting up. - Practical Guidance: Start-Up Resource Kit
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The collection of resources related to starting up on Lexis Practical Guidance. - Westlaw: Business Organization Agreements
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Search through thousands of sample agreements sourced from EDGAR filings since 2000.
Corporate Law Resources
The following resources address the laws of businesses and non-profits and can assist with entity formation other activities.
Practice Centers
Treatises
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The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations (Wiley ebook)
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Nonprofit Organizations: Law & Taxation (Westlaw)
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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law (Wolters Kluwer)
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Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations (Westlaw)
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Blumberg on Corporate Groups (Wolters Kluwer)
Practice Materials
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Advising Oregon Businesses (BarBooks)
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Washington Partnership and LLC Deskbook (Casemaker)
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Advising Small Businesses (Westlaw)
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Corporate Practice Series (Bloomberg Law)
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Choice of Entity, Legal Considerations of Selection, Portfolio 50-4th
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Limited Liability Companies: Legal Aspects of Organization, Operation, and Dissolution, Portfolio 67-2nd
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Forms
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Nonprofit Corporation Forms Handbook (Westlaw)
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Corporation Forms (Westlaw)
Hornbooks
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Corporation Law by Franklin Gevurtz
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The Law of Corporations in a Nutshell, by Robert W. Hamilton & Richard D. Freer
