Welcome: South Carolina Business Attorney
Attorney Serving Columbia, Greenville, Charleston & Other SC Locations
Each attorney at the Small Business Law Firm of Payne & Associates, LLC knows that the path taken in business is as important as the destination. To reach the right destination, you must take the right path. To take the right path, you must aim at a worthy destination and practice fiscal, creative, technologicial, ethical, and legal discipline along the way.
With this circularity of destination and path in mind (the zen of business), our lawyers have been re-thinking and redefining affordable business legal services from day-one, helping businesses like yours awaken to new possibilities, as well as to anticipate, prevent, or overcome the unwelcome bumps and twists along the way.
In so doing, we recognize that traditional inefficiencies of delivering legal services through frequent in-office appointments is increasingly costly, inconvenient, impractical, and unecessary. As a result, the attorney-client interface of our practice is shifting toward a relationship that is more flexible, efficient, and integrated into the work-flow of each client business insofar as client communications are now substantially made by way of telephone and e-mail.
As your legal counsel, the value-proposition we
offer is to:
- Deliver practical, effective, and affordable legal solutions by leveraging the latest technology
- Integrate with your business flow
- Advance your business goals and vision
- Minimize your risks by maximizing your protections
- Increase your profits
- Enhance your well-being.
Our attorneys have helped thousands of dedicated entrepreneurs (from start-ups, to growth-stage businesses with 100 employees or less, to investment companies capitalized with tens of millions of dollars); we can help you too.
In addition to our formidable list of practice areas, our attorneys provide small businesses like yours with:
- Local & Virtual Business Legal Services
We provide expert business legal services through our Columbia Office and throughout the state of South Carolina by telephone and e-mail communications, as well as through our online Client interface. Clients may log-in to their account, access their documents, purchase legal forms, form an LLC online, incorporate online, or apply for state for federal trademark protection online.
- $45 Initial Consultation with a Licensed Attorney
Our low-cost initial consultations provide you with valuable insights to help you make informed legal decisions. An initial one-hour consultation with a licensed attorney is only $45.00. In-office consultations are provided in our Columbia office. Initial consultations outside the Columbia office are by telephone.
- Comprehensive & Affordable Business Start-up Packages & Kits
Packed with all the documents and forms you need to operate a limited liability company or corporation, these packages and kits include a variety of supporting documents, a detailed checklist and legal memorandum to guide you through important start-up and operational milestones, and a complementary CD-ROM containing federal and state tax forms, employee forms, fill-in-the-blank annual meeting and special meeting forms, federal and state employee posters, and a select list of county and city business license and zoning contact information
- Free Online Business Checkup
Our attorneys have drafted a free online business checkup for our clients and prospective clients based on a three-tiered business development model we have designed for better business health and success, focusing on legal compliance, creation of business value, and asset risk management.
- Free Online Business Entity Selection Guide
Get a detailed overview from legal professionals on the management structure and tax pros and cons of carrying-on business as a sole proprietorship, general partnership, corporation, or LLC before scheduling an initial startup consultation or forming your business.
- Free Guide on Choosing a Business Name or Domain Name
Learn the differences between a trade name, trademark, and domain name and what elements to consider in choosing each. This guide also educates the reader in methods and strategies for performing due diligence against infringement and well as legal protections for each.
- Free Business Attorney Live Chat!
Have a question for an attorney? Get an answer! Our Business Attorney Live Chat
allows prospective clients to submit a general question to us, without the need to schedule an appointment.
Don't delay. Get answers now to your important legal questions and concerns.
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Small Business Law Firm of Payne & Associates, LLC
Attorney at Law
Serving South Carolina: Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Rockhill & Other SC Locations