Small Business Lawyers

Name: Progressive Legal | Small Business Lawyers | Online Legal Services
Address: 801, Level 8/100 William St, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, 2011
Telephone: 1800 820 083
Rating: 5.0

Small Business Lawyer Sydney

Welcome to Progressive Legal – we get small business. We are a small business law firm dedicated to empowering small business owners with customised legal advice and solutions.

We have helped almost 3,000 Australian Small Businesses over the past 8 years across a range of practice areas.

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If you want business legal advice now, please get in touch with us today via phone or the contact form on this page.

Phone: 1800 820 083

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How Can Our Small Business Lawyers Help You?

At Progressive Legal, we understand that it is challenging to balance all your business activities with your legal obligations. We know that unfortunately, legal will sometimes slip down the list of priorities as they are not necessarily income-producing, which is a real danger. To help you overcome this challenge, our small business legal services are affordable, accessible, and tailored to your business needs.

Our experienced team of Small Business Lawyer team in Sydney can help small business owners like yourself with many small business legal services.

You can find our small business lawyers in Sydney at 801, Level 8/100 William St, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011. We assist clients Australia-wide.

Small Business Legal Advice

Depending on your small business’ needs and areas of concern, we can provide you with tailored and practical legal advice and small business legal documents on topics such as:

Trade Marks and Intellectual Property

We help small businesses register Australian and international trade marks and manage the practical processes such as submissions, oppositions, objections, evidence of use, letters of consent, trade mark infringement, and trade mark disputes.

We’ve now registered or advised on close to 1,000 trade marks both here and internationally for clients. We’re also registered agents for New Zealand trade marks as well as Australia. The firm has a network of local agents all around the world for international trade mark applications.

We also provide practical and quick advice about the protection of a small business’ intellectual property, including non-disclosure agreements or deeds of confidentiality, intellectual property protection within employment contracts or independent contractor agreements, supply agreements or IP licence agreements.

Find out more about our trade mark legal services here.

Corporate Law and Structuring

We provide small businesses with tailored legal advice and documents on areas of corporate law that are relevant to their circumstances, including incorporation, holding companies and trading entities, shareholders agreements, share sale agreements, share vesting, corporate law advice, structuring and other related advice.

The legal structure of a business is so vital from a legal risk perspective and we’ve helped thousands of small businesses through this process to obtain significant risk reductions as well as peace of mind.

Find out more about our commercial law services here.

Privacy Law

Based on thorough research and discussions with you, we can draft your business’ privacy policy and any associated advice. We also offer GDPR compliant privacy policies as well.

With privacy law becoming a hot-topic around the world now and clients/customers starting to insist on clients having a privacy policy in place, it has become more standard business practice rather than best practice to have one.

If your small business collects certain health, medical or financial information, it may be mandatory that you are required to have one, regardless of your turnover.

Find out more about privacy law here.

Legal Documents and Contracts

We can provide you with a wide range of tailored legal documents in areas such as Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Privacy Law, Workplace Law, Corporate Law and Litigation or Dispute Resolution.

Only tailored legal documents will provide you with enough protection to adequately cover your small business for its activities. Otherwise, you will be necessarily leaving your small business open to unnecessary legal risks.

Workplace Law

We help small business owners comply with their legal obligations in the workplace. Whether that’s drafting employment contracts or independent contractor agreements, providing advice about legal issues with respect to employees, termination and dismissal.

We help small businesses navigate the various laws concerning different types of employment and resolve common problems such as unfair dismissal and unlawful termination.

We also draft Codes of Conduct, Social Media Policies, Sponsorship Agreements and Equal Employment and Opportunity Policies (EEO) for small businesses.

Dispute Resolution

We can help you resolve any disputes the business may have with other business entities or consumers. We specialise in commercial and intellectual property disputes, cease and desist correspondence, trade mark infringement letters, copyright infringement letters and Court proceedings.

Letters of demand and statutory demands are also frequently drafted by our expert small business lawyers. We have vast experience in handling disputes of all types of commercial and corporate matters.

Find out more about our dispute resolution services here.

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Why Choose Us as your Small Business Lawyer?

At Progressive Legal, we pride ourselves on being accessible and transparent with small business owners.

Our priority is to make sure you learn more about the legal processes and systems relevant to your small business, and are protected in the case that any legal issues come your way.

Our clients are located all around the country and we have been providing online legal services since inception.

Most instructions are taken over the phone or email, zoom or even Whatsapp for international clients.

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Small Business Lawyer FAQs

What can a small business lawyer do?

A small business lawyer can help you navigate the legal potholes that you may face while starting and running your business. This includes registering your business name, creating policies and terms of use agreements, terms and conditions, privacy policies, appropriate and necessary waivers or disclaimers, protecting your intellectual property with trade marks, non-disclosure agreements / confidentiality agreements / confidentiality deeds, licence agreements as well as any due diligence.

Small business lawyers can provide you with specific legal advice to your circumstances and the industry and state in which you operate, to ensure your business is operating in compliance with the law and is as legally protected as possible.

What is the difference between a corporate lawyer and a business lawyer?

A corporate lawyer usually provides advice in relation to a company’s obligations under the Corporations Act, Australia, drafting shareholders agreements, advising on fiduciary duties of directors and advising on various legal structures. A corporate lawyer also commonly works with larger organisations on matters such as acquisitions, corporate restructuring, litigation, insolvency and mergers.

A business lawyer usually advises on a more varied range of legal activities for a business including commercial, intellectual property protection like trade marks, privacy law, workplace and dispute resolution. They can help you to navigate legal matters you may face while starting and running your business. This includes drafting workplace contracts, creating business policies, issuing appropriate disclaimers, offering business structure advice, protecting your intellectual property and much more. A business lawyer is well-suited to help small businesses due to their wide range of expertise.

Despite having different areas of focus, corporate and business lawyers often work together to ensure a business meets their legal obligations. At Progressive Legal, we have in-depth knowledge of both corporate and commercial law, including intellectual property.

What kind of lawyer do I need for a small business?

Ultimately, a lawyer that specialises in small business is best for your small business. There is no substitute for experience. If a lawyer doesn’t do something day-in-day-out, then you should be looking for someone that does.

Small business lawyers that have a lot of experience in various areas of practice like Progressive Legal has, that is experts in all the different areas that a small business would need, is absolutely invaluable for a small business. To have experts that are there for you when you have any corporate or business structuring questions, any commercial legal documents or advice, urgent workplace issues or legal documents that need to be drawn up, documenting legal engagements with other suppliers or distributors, privacy policies or issues, trade marks and other intellectual property protection, any disputes or debtor management, cease and desist correspondence or other dispute resolution – it is a minefield in small business, and it’s best to have someone that understands small business and the constant legal challenges they face.

Most small businesses that come to Progressive Legal express discontent with previous lawyers that they were just not understood and weren’t treated as an “A” client.

At Progressive Legal, we see the engagement as a long-term relationship, not just a transaction.