Startup Legal SUPPORT. - Simiplify, Secure & SUcceed.

Startup Legal Support -

SIMPLIFY, SECURE & SUCCEED.

Launch your startup with ease, backed by Lazarus Legal’s savvy team. We cut through legal jargon to build a solid foundation for your business. From initial setup to intellectual property protection, we focus on straightforward, effective solutions. We give you the keys to build a business that will last.

Start-up Law

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.

Our Start-up Legal Services

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:

We'll help your start-up build on a solid legal framework.

Get the legal aspects of your company set up right and protect yourself from the get go.

Your beautiful start-up idea is fighting for its life from day one, trying to beat the system long enough to grow and change the world. You can give it a fighting chance by protecting it from legal harm. Fill out this form and our helpful team will call you to listen, assess, and advise you on the right legal support package you need. One of our specialists will be delighted to meet you for a free initial consultation at our Bondi Junction office or your location. We want to be part of your big adventure.

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Our Start-up Legal Process

Initial free consultation

Assessment of requirements and future developments

Discuss our flexible fee arrangement

Commence the work

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspiring businesses tend to disrupt and take risks. They don’t play it safe. And that’s one of the reasons they succeed. But could be the reason they get into a legal jam. Your business needs a savvy business lawyer to manage and minimise your risks. 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.

Business owners 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 business lawyers come in.

A business lawyer can help you and your business do a multitude of tasks and take on several complex initiatives. They can help and advise you on the legal structure of your business, draft and create various contracts and agreements, make sure your advertising is compliant, protect your intellectual property, respond and manage legal disputes, and a lot more.

At Lazarus Legal, we have a team of business lawyers with a diverse background and expertise. We are a one-stop-shop for all your business legal requirements. But more importantly, when you hire one of our business lawyers, they become a part of your business, advising and protecting your business throughout its journey.

At Lazarus Legal, we focus on value first and foremost. In saying that, we make sure our fees are not only transparent but affordable for every aspiring and growing business. If we didn’t discuss it, we won’t bill you for it. Our fee structure is flexible and we work it around your budgets and constraints. Get in touch and we’ll tell take you through all the details you need to know including our fees.

What you can expect

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.

What our clients are saying

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We know you want to move fast. It’s not our job to slow you down, it’s our job to remove the obstacles that can get in your way. We’ll take care of the legalities and technicalities so you can create new realities. If you want legal advice to make sure your start-up is accompanied by a sonic boom, drop us a line.
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Barry Lazarus

CEO & Notary Public

barry@lazaruslegal.com.au 

We’d be lying if we told you that this bloke isn’t the big honcho of our team, but his name is a dead give-away. The founder of Lazarus Legal, Barry is an old school, tough as nails lawyer. They don’t forge litigators like this anymore.

With decades of experience in both Australia and South Africa, his wisdom is as renowned as his name. Back in the days when Schwarzenegger and Van Damme were kicking ass on VHS, Barry was kicking ass in the courtroom. And after all these years, he still has a reputation for refusing to back down.Barry is definitely the badass you’d want in a fight – in court or otherwise. But really, he’s a big softie. Just don’t let him know you know that (although he probably won’t read this anyway – navigating the Internet is not his strong point).

Aside from putting other lawyers in their place, taking long walks on the beach and spending time with his family, Barry enjoys seeing others succeed. Not only is Barry a staunch and unmoving litigator, he has sharp business and commercial acumen having started up ventures from scratch and growing them into full-blown franchises – from real estate to creating ice cream, to making pasta. With his experience on both sides of the commercial and legal equation, you want this guy to be on your side, whether you’re the next Zuckerberg realising your genius, or the next Zuckerberg taking on your opponents in court.

When Barry is not busy lawyering about, he is a part-time lawn bowler and a wannabe comedian, but never took both as a day job, because let’s face it, he’s a lot better at his day job.

If someone ever threatens you to lawyer up…relax, call Barry and he’ll handle the rest. 

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Mark Lazarus

Director

mark@lazaruslegal.com.au 

The visionary behind the business and the fresh blood of the Lazarus Legal team, Mark (or Laz as he is often known) owes much of his success to his past stories and experiences. And he’s made it his personal goal to bring that wisdom and formula to the firm.

He’s a bit of jet setter, splitting his time between Australia and the UK, maximising every hour of his professional life. He thrives on this adrenalin. It allowed him to work in private practice in Sydney, act for a host of famous celebrities in London, do a two year stint as a NSW barrister (and not the pretentious coffee type in the Melbourne laneways) and more recently did a gig as the Legal Director covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa for one of the world’s coolest fast-moving consumer good brands!  

As an Aussie and UK lawyer and former barrister, Mark not only has the gift of the gab but he’ll walk the walk to prove it too. He likes to think he’s a bit like Harvey Specter or Michael Corleone, the main difference is you can actually retain him as your lawyer and consigliere. He’ll tell you how it really is and will take on any challenge head on. Although litigation and court advocacy comes naturally to him, commercial and IP is what gets his blood pumping! 

When Mark is not out there doing his thing, you will probably catch him chilling at home with his family, on the sidelines of the soccer (football) pitch cheering on his two boys, crawling through mud obstacles, or training hard at the gym. Passion and commitment is what drives Mark to succeed, along with his burning desire to disrupt the legal profession by finding new ways to change the game.

He has sights on the future. So if you’re breaking new ground, ahead of the times, and on the verge of something big, but you need someone who’s got your back and who can give you straight up advice, this is the guy you will want on speed dial.

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