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Founding and launching a start-up company requires more than a strong idea. It requires the right legal structure and guidance from day one. We provide smart, practical legal guidance to start-ups and emerging companies as they form, fund, and scale.
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The Morris James Start-Up Program provides focused, practical counsel to entrepreneurs and emerging companies at every stage of growth.
Built to Support Innovation
We work with founders forming and growing new ventures across a range of industries. Some clients are venture-backed. Others are growing deliberately and independently. Our approach is broad and tailored to the needs of each business.
Whether you are organizing your first company or building your next venture, we help you establish a clear legal foundation that supports growth and protects stakeholder interests in the long term.
Legal Counsel from Formation Through Growth
Through the Start-Up Program, we assist with entity formation, founder and governance agreements, documents needed for capital raising and equity arrangements, and commercial contracts. We can also provide ongoing outside general counsel support as your company grows.
Our full-service law firm, including transactional, tax, employment, intellectual property, real estate, and litigation counsel, allows us to support more complex needs over the company’s growth. When a dispute arises, a financing becomes more complex, or an exit opportunity develops, our team is positioned to support you without the need to transition to a new firm.
Why Delaware Matters
Delaware remains the jurisdiction of choice for new corporate entities, and investors, due to its well-developed corporate law and respected business courts. As a Delaware-based law firm, we advise on entity formation, governance, and ownership structures with a practical understanding of how Delaware law operates in real-world settings.
For companies located across the country, working directly with our Delaware counsel builds a lasting partnership that evolves with your company, ensuring your business is properly structured, legally compliant, and strategically positioned for what comes next.
Get Started with Morris James
Our Start-Up Program is designed to meet you where you are today and continue alongside you as your business grows. We offer predictable, practical fee arrangements that align with your company’s stage and budget.
Our goal is to serve as a long-term partner, not a barrier to growth.
To learn how Morris James can support your new business venture, submit our online contact form below.
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Benefits of the Morris James Start-Up Program
In addition to having the legal experience needed to help with your legal needs, we also understand the limited capital of pre-revenue and early stage start-up companies. We work with start-ups to provide legal services at a cost that works for the capital that may be available to a start-up.
For qualifying companies, we provide a discount of 30% to our standard corporate rates for the first year of your engagement with us. Whether a company qualifies for the discount is determined on a case-by-case basis, but typically such acompany is within its first few years of operations, is pre-revenue (or has little revenue to date), and has not yet had a significant capital raise round.
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