Business & Entrepreneurship: Legal Resources

Whether or not you plan to hire an attorney, a basic understanding of applicable business law will help guide you. Nolo has an extensive library of free legal articles on topics of interest to small businesses:

• Business Formation: LLCs & Corporations
• Small Business: A variety of topics from starting to running to closing a business.
• Delaware specific: How to start an LLC in Delaware

Cornell Law School provides definitions in plain English of the terminology used in business law:

• Legal Information Institute legal encyclopedia

Are you facing a legal issue or just looking for more information about a specific legal topic? FindLaw's Learn About the Law features informational articles about a wide variety of legal topics:

• Small Business Law
• Delaware Law

The three Delaware Law Libraries are located in the courthouse for each county:

• Kent County in Dover (Note that a form must be submitted in advance to request access.)
• New Castle County in Wilmington (Open for walk-ins, but calling ahead is recommended.)
• Sussex County in Georgetown (Open for walk-ins, but calling ahead is recommended.)

Available resources at law libraries include:

1. The Delaware Code.
2. Delaware Corporation Law treatises.
3. Westlaw, HeinOnline, and Lexis computer terminals. Westlaw includes a robust collection of secondary materials as well as primary sources. The information in Lexis and HeinOnline is mostly from primary sources.
4. A limited selection of Spanish-language resources, which include court-created forms (available online) and Spanish-English Law Dictionaries.