Engage a Lazarus Legal start-up lawyer and get your company built on a solid legal foundation. We will take you from start-up to the finish-line.
Ask one of our start-up lawyers and advisors what motivates them to go to work each day and the will likely say that it’s the ability to work with burgeoning start-ups. There is nothing more exciting than the energy of entrepreneurialism, and we love watching a client go from one founding member with a big idea to an established success story with a whole team reaping the rewards.
Of course, one of the reasons start-ups are so exciting, is because they are taking risks, and that means that sometimes the risk doesn’t pay off.
9 out of 10 Australian start-ups fail. In our experience, most start-up founders are acutely aware of this – but what hurts is when their start-up fails for avoidable reasons. Failing to register a trade mark, falling victim to an onerous contract, getting shafted by your co-founder, or having a competitor sweep in and steel your idea, are just a few examples of the challenges start-ups face along their journey.
Lazarus Legal’s specialists are here to help you chase your dream, while protecting you every step of the way. We listen to your incredible ideas and then give you the legal reality check you need to ensure you are on track for success!
What are the legal implications of your venture? When should you obtain a trade mark? Should you sign that NDA before approaching suppliers? How do you go about setting up your employment contracts or distribution channels so that your product secrets are kept safe and your idea is protected? These are just some of the questions that many entrepreneurs forgets to ask – that’s why we’re here.
Our Start-up legal services include:
At Lazarus Legal, our lawyers have a startup mentality. We enjoy the thrill of the new, we thrive on defying expectations, and most of all we love to get things done. We’re all about embracing new ideas and ways of thinking and supporting the visionaries of the future. We’re all about you.
We’re also mindful of your initial capital. We’re focused on providing you with real solid advice without draining your seed funding on legal services. What’s more, we understand your time is precious. That’s why we’ve come up with our “Start-Up Meet” – an opportunity for you to meet with one of our advisors and to delve into what you and your business are all about. If your head is in the clouds we’ll bring you down to earth long enough to get your paperwork in place, then we’ll help you soar again.
Start-up founders tend to be risk-takers, while lawyers are experts at managing risks. It is an entrepreneur’s role to dream of everything that will go right with a company and shout about that to the world. It’s a lawyer’s role to think about all the things that could go wrong with the company and think of ways to avoid these problems from occurring.
Start-up founders are often optimists and for them, the potential for legal risks can be easily underestimated. It may be difficult to imagine a trusted employee giving away a trade secret, a supplier providing something substantially poorer quality than you paid for, or a customer refusing to pay an invoice, but these things happen. That’s when good startup lawyers come in.
Lazarus Legal are a diverse group of individuals made up of legal experts and commercial advisors with varied backgrounds and stories to tell. We strive to provide one-of-a-kind legal advice and will go over and above to achieve positive outcomes.
