Small Business Law Firm SM
of Payne & Associates, LLC
smart business matters.SM
South Carolina
Virtual Legal Service
Locations
Aiken
Anderson
Clemson
Florence
Greenwood
Hilton Head
Mount Pleasant
Myrtle Beach
Orangeburg
Rock Hill
Spartanburg
Sumter
Entrepreneurship is the American dream, in South Carolina and across the country. But starting and operating a business is increasingly complicated with today’s array of incorporation and LLC formation and tax options; contract laws; trademark, copyright, and licensing issues; as well as complex regulatory requirements. As a South Carolina small business, you need a lawyer that will serve as your legal counselor in every sense of the word. You need forward-thinking, affordable legal solutions from a passionate team of attorneys that will
look out for YOUR interests. You need the seasoned, approachable lawyers of the Small Business Law Firm SM of Payne & Associates, LLC.
At the Small Business Law Firm SM, we know business matters backwards and forwards because we work exclusively with the business community. Our lawyers practice in more than 25 areas of business law, applying the most advanced legal strategies of large corporate concerns to small and growth-stage business enterprises. Our clientele includes innovators seeking to secure and protect proprietary rights, start-ups navigating initial legal demands and expanding businesses whose needs have outgrown what many general practice law firms can provide.
We 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. With the goal of assessing your business needs, communicating your options and minimizing your risks, the Small Business Law Firm SM can help you grow intelligently with a bottom-line focus on increasing your profits and business value.
Whereas large law firms tyically prefer the largest business clients and smaller general practice firms might know only the first or second tier or business issues at best, our lawyers focus with laser-like precision on business matters and have been re-thinking and redefining small business legal services from day-one. In addition to our comprehensive practice areas, we provide businesses like yours with:
1. Low-Cost Initial Consultations and Entrepreneur Friendly Rates
Whether your business is newly starting, growing, involved in a dispute, being transferred, or dissolving, our low-cost initial consultations provide you with valuable insights to help you make the best business decisions possible. An initial one-hour consultation with a licensed South Carolina business attorney is only $45.00. This consultation allows us to provide you with the most accurate and
useful information you need to run your business.Thereafter, our entrepreneur-friendly rates make it easier for you to address business issues proactively, in your making a fixed up-front investment to address customer, client, or employee contracts, intellectual property rights protections, or asset risk management structures, to better avoid potentially costly and time-consuming legal entanglements later and to more securely grow and protect your business.
To schedule a low-cost, initial appointment with one of our licensed business attorneys, click here.
2. Free Smart Business Matters TM E-mail Newsletter
Our Informative e-mail newsletter is a must have for the serious minded entrepreneur. Each issue is loaded with select business strategies, insights, traps for the unwary, useful website links, and other business matters of critical importance to every business decision maker. Why do we offer this free e-mail newsletter to current and potential clients? Because Smart Business Matters!
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3. Comprehensive, yet Affordable, Business Start-up Packages & Kits
To best assist clients in the start-up process, our lawyers offer comprehensive, yet affordable, limited liability company and corporate formation packages and kits. Packed with all the documents and forms you need to legally start and operate a business entity, these packages and kits are drafted to include specific company, member, and manager information. You can choose from:
Formation Service Packages: Our low-cost Business Start-up Service Packages let you to hire the Small Business Law FirmSM to guide you through start-up procedures, explain formation options, and handle all necessary Secretary of State filings. This gives you a highly personalized, detail-oriented start-up experience.
Formation Kits: Our Start-up Kits give you all the tools you need to create a limited liability company or a corporation and perform all necessary Secretary of State filings yourself. Designed for entrepreneurs who have already filed their entity formation documents with the Secretary of State, these kits provide a safety net to get you through the required procedures.
Regardless of which option you choose, you will receive a variety of supporting documents, along with a detailed legal memorandum and checklist to guide you through important start-up milestones. Formation Service Package and Formation Kit clients will also receive 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, a select list of county and city business license and zoning contact information.
4. Free Business Check-up TM
If you’re ready to take your business to the next level or just wondering about general compliance, legal trap avoidance, and liability issues, we invite you to assess your business situation with our Free Business Checkup SM. This useful business tool pinpoints common legal issues and solutions while sharing strategies to build and protect your business. Presented in an easy-to-understand question-and-answer format for each business structure, this check-up is designed help you gauge broad risks and opportunities. The information is for educational purposes only and does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Your specific questions and concerns should be directed to a competent business attorney who knows the facts and circumstances of your matter before relying on any general information. To begin your Free Business Check-up TM, click here.
5. Business Help Forum TM
Visit our unique Business Help ForumTM to read and share questions and suggestions with forum members on topics such as advertising, business books, business technology, economic downturn strategies, favorite websites, internet help, marketing, networking & leads groups, business tips & traps, and others. Make an announcement, such as the opening of your new business, or just introduce yourself and your company or organization.
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ask a Question or Share a Business Insight or Strategy today!
6. Innovative SBLF Toolbar for your website brower
To keep you informed and working efficiently, our SBLF Toolbar contains: a free streaming radio tuned to online business talk shows and hundreds of music stations, and is preloaded with business RSS newsfeeds from the country's largest and most relevant news services and aggregators, including a newsfeed from our blog, Smart Business Matters TM. It also includes a message center allowing us to alert you to important changes in the law and upcoming events and includes dozens of useful plug-ins and much more. Please download it today!
Click the "Stay Informed" banner in the righthand margin of this page.
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7. A Passion for Growing and Protecting Your Businesses
The Small Business Law Firm SM was created to foster entrepreneurship in South Carolina by providing comprehensive, affordable legal services to the small business community. Each lawyer with our firm strongly believes that an efficient, proactive approach to legal issues can literally make the difference between your business thriving or not surviving. As your legal counselor, we are committed to
Learning your business
Communicating your options
Minimizing your risk, and
Increasing your profits.
To see how a lawyer with our firm can help your business, contact us.
8. Our Respected Statewide Experience
Widely recognized for their expertise in business matters, our lawyers serve small businesses statewide through offices in
9. Virtual Legal Services Option
Our Firm is a pioneer in developing low cost legal solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. We offer Virtual Legal Services (VLS) to clients desiring sound legal advice and services, without the need for face-to-face meetings in expensively decorated attorney diggs. Communications and interactions occur by telephone, e-mail, instant messaging, facsimile, or using a webcam. Need a contract reviewed or drafted? an LLC or Corporation formed? a state or federal trademark application submitted? to discuss the legal issues and options for your business? or other legal services that can be readily and more efficiently provided without the hassle of driving across town? Do you need easy access to lawyers and attorneys that focus on business legal matters with greater focus than your local or rural general practice lawyer or law firm can deliver? If you answered yes to any of these, than consider using our efficient and effective Virtual Legal Services.