Corporate and securities protocol. A blog by law firm Sheppard Mullin on “Mergers and acquisitions, securities, finance, tax and bankruptcy for corporations, start-ups, venture capitalists, private, public and emerging companies, and family businesses.” Corporations are required to file annual documents with the Secretary of State`s Companies Division in which they are incorporated or authorized to carry on business. Current annual filings and other corporate documents, such as by-laws, articles and by-laws, are increasingly available online on the websites of many divisions. (Documents dated before the early 2000s are often only available on microfiche.) On the North Carolina Corporations Division website, which is typical of these websites, users can search for company names to obtain corporate and other documents, as well as information about a company`s citizenship, status, address, officers, and registered representatives. (For information on federally regulated securities filings required by publicly traded companies, see the Library`s Securities Law Research Guide.) Business units are structured in various legal forms, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. The purpose of this guide is to help researchers find useful primary and secondary sources available through the Goodson Law Library on corporate issues (also known as “trade associations” or “business organizations”), such as entity selection, incorporation and management of corporations, and Delaware law. Bloomberg, Lexis Advance and Westlaw offer comprehensive practice centers or areas for professional associations that are convenient starting points for research. These practice centres collect primary and secondary sources. BNA Corporate Practice Series (on Bloomberg Law). This set of practice-oriented portfolios includes corporate compliance, corporate governance, corporate legal services, financial reporting and business forms. Portfolios offer detailed analysis, practical tools such as checklists and sample documents, and detailed bibliographies. Wirtschaftsrecht heute (Volumes 13-19 in Periodicals; Volumes 1-19 on HeinOnline and Westlaw; recent articles on the journal`s website). Once a practice-oriented monthly magazine, Business Law Today is now the digital platform of the ABA`s Business Law Section.

The peer-reviewed articles and videos cover practice areas such as securities law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, forms of business entities, and Internet law. Reformulation of the law Third, Agency (KF 395. A413 A7 2006 and on HeinOnline). Professor Deborah DeMott said: “This work provides valuable clues about business relationships, including those between executives and companies, employees and employers, and real estate agents and other specialist agents and their clients.” Order and Prerequisites: Business Associations is the first course in the Corporate Law program and has no prerequisites. This is a prerequisite for some advanced business law courses. After adoption, state statutes for professional associations can be found in state codes. Annotated versions of each state`s codes are available in print on the third floor of the library and on Lexis Advance and Westlaw. In a narrower sense, databases containing only those parts of government codes dealing with business entities are available in the practice centres described in Part I, Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance and Westlaw. Of particular note is the Corporate Practice Center`s State Forms of Business section on Bloomberg Law, which quickly guides scholars to the laws and business forms of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Similarly, links to free, uncommented versions of all state bylaws are also available from the Cornell Legal Information Institute. This course explores the law and practice of multi-owner business organizations. Professional associations are largely established and administered under state law, and so this guide focuses primarily on state legal resources. Of course, companies are also subject to extensive regulation by federal securities and tax law. To learn more about research on these topics, see the Goodson Law Library`s research guides on securities law and federal taxation. Alan S. Gutterman, Business Transactions Solutions (on Westlaw) is a document creation tool throughout a company`s “lifecycle,” from planning and adoption to business transactions, finance, human resources, compliance, IPOs, acquisitions and divestitures. Each chapter contains a summary, commentaries and practice notes, master forms and clauses, special forms and checklists. This course provides an introduction to law for companies (companies).

To do business, resources held by different people (e.g. capital, management skills, manpower, etc.) must be pooled. Businesses allow people to pool their resources to achieve a common goal by enabling efficient use of those resources while preventing one person or group from exploiting others. The law of professional associations aims to facilitate cooperation and resolve disputes. Business Law Professors` Blog As part of the Law Professors Blog Network, this blog features articles on topics such as alternative forms of business, major commercial disputes and securities regulation, as well as announcements of calls for papers, open faculty positions and upcoming conferences. William Meade Fletcher, Fletcher Corporation Forms Annotated (reference KF1411. F55 2011 and on Westlaw). This comprehensive set includes federal and state forms that cover businesses from incorporation to dissolution. It is also aimed at other forms of business organizations such as non-profit companies, professional companies and limited liability companies. The chapters begin with “Practice Considerations” and the forms contain references to relevant explanatory documents in the Fletcher Cyclopedia of the Law of Corporations (KF1411. F544 and Westlaw).

The Uniform Law Harmonization Commission (“ULC”) and the American Law Institute have passed several uniform statutes that apply to unincorporated corporations (i.e., non-corporate corporations), including the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, the Uniform Partnership Act, the Uniform Limited Partnership Act, and the most recent Uniform Business Organizations Code (“UBOC”). To view all business unit actions on the ULC website, select “Business Organizations and Regulations” under Category. Narrower databases containing only state regulations and other administrative documents dealing with professional associations are also available at the Lexis Advance and Westlaw practice centers described in Part I. Some states` corporate departments are also updating the trade regulations available on their websites. The regulations of the Companies Division of the Secretary of State of North Carolina are contained in Title 18, Chapter 4 of the Administrative Code of the State of North Carolina, which is available in print in the State Codes section or free online on the NC Office of Administrative Hearings website. The laws of many states regarding the formation and management of corporations are based on model or uniform laws. Delaware Corporation Law (8 Del. Code §§ 101-398) also serves as a model for some states. Newsletters and magazines can help researchers keep abreast of current developments in association law.

Here are a few examples: Frequently studied sub-topics of trade associations include corporate governance, the related topic of duties and responsibilities of officers and directors, alternative forms of business entities, and, because of Delaware`s leading role in the development of corporate law, Delaware law. Robert Dick Douglas, Douglas` Forms (NC Area KFN7468. D682 and Lexis Advance). Volume 1 of this collection of North Carolina Civil Practice Forms covers, among other things, business transactions, including the formation of various types of business organizations, as well as debt financing, employment contracts, and powers of attorney. The notes contain practical guidance and references to sections of CN`s General By-Laws. Other treatises on the law of professional associations can be found in the practice centres described in Part I or by domain in the Goodson Law Library`s online catalogue. Here are some useful keywords from the catalogue: Current and historical versions of the Uniform Acts are also exhaustively referenced in the Annotated Uniform Statutes (reference KE879. A45 U51 and Westlaw). This collection contains the text of each act, official commentaries, cross-references to Western themes and key figures, and Corpus Juris Secundum, as well as notes on adoptions and state variations. In printed form, the uniform laws on professional associations can be found in the volumes of the laws on economic and non-profit organizations and the laws on associations.