Business Law

I prefer to work with clients who desire legal expertise to help them be profitable - by providing advocacy, defense, advice, paperwork - be they $5 million gross or start-up.

• Business Successions
• Buying & Selling
• Closely Held Businesses
• Corporations
• Directors' & Officers' Liability
• Franchising
• Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
• Nonprofits & Tax-Exempt Corporations
• Partnerships
• Professional Corporations
• Shareholders' Rights

• Breach of Contract
• Contract Disputes
• Contract Drafting & Review
• Employment Contracts
• Franchises
• Non-Compete Contracts
• Uniform Commercial Code

Wills, Trusts & Estates

I prefer to work with clients who desire legal expertise to help them be profitable - by providing advocacy, defense, advice, paperwork - be they $5 million gross or start-up.

• Estate Taxes & Gift Taxes
• Income Taxes
• IRS Disputes
• Negotiating IRS Payments & Settlements
• Power of Attorney
• Tax Evasion Defense

• Charitable Giving
• Charitable Trusts
• Drafting Trusts
• Drafting Wills
• Estate Administration
• Estate Planning
• Living Trusts
• Living Wills
• Probate
• Guardianship
• Power of Attorney
• Business Succession Planning
• Special Needs Trust
• Supplemental Needs Trust
• Revocable Trust & Irrevocable Trust

CA, Jan 1983
Bar Number: 107524

California State Courts; United States Federal Courts

Charles Houston Bar Association; National Bar Association

I complete the continuing education required by the Bar.

Regular Column ("The Business Lawyer") in the monthly newspaper: Black Business Listing (published in Oakland)

Purchase of a Newspaper
Corporate Merger of two Churches

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California

"The Business Lawyers" provides legal services to businesses and their owners. The law firm concentrates in areas that are important to business: Corporations, Commercial Litigation, Tax Law, Partnerships and LLCs, Real Property Law, Securities (the capital raising process).

Taylor, Goins & Stallworth LLP Also has an extensive estate planning and probate practice, reflecting the property accumulation of its clientele. The Business Lawyers have been providing competent services to businesses and private investment companies for over 10 years.

Present Taylor, Goins & Stallworth LLP, Attorneys-at-Law, Oakland, California
Self-Employed/Partner - Specializing and limiting practice exclusively to the areas of corporate and partnership law, tax and securities, including the drafting of offering memoranda to comply with the securities law requirements.

1984 -1998 William A. Taylor, Attorney-at-Law, Oakland, California
Self-Employed - Specializing and limiting practice exclusively to the areas of corporate and partnership law, tax and securities, including the drafting of offering memoranda to comply with the securities law requirements.

1983 - 1984 Offices of Stuckey & Johnson, Oakland, California
Tax Attorney - Drafted offering memoranda for private placements; organized corporations and partnerships; conducted Tax Court litigation; provided tax planning and prepared returns.

1980 - 1982 Offices of Blatte & Weiss, Tax Attorneys, San Francisco, California
Tax Specialist - Drafted corporation trust and pension/profit sharing plan documentation; drafted several real property limited partnership private placements; compliance and audit defense work.

1978 - 1979 Moss Adams & Co., CPA, San Francisco, California
Regional Office Tax Specialist - Legal research, tax accounting and compliance for individuals, partnerships and corporations. Won the firm's 1979 tennis trophy.

1976 - 1978 Law Offices of Berkley & Rhodes, Oakland, California
Law Clerk - Researched and drafted pleadings and legal memoranda while a student in law school.

1975 - 1976 Owner, Texaco service station, Richmond, California
Self-Employed - which was purchased during the first year of law school.

1972 - 1974 City National Bank, Columbus, Ohio
Loan Officer - Made personal and commercial loans. Management trainee for a branch office.

1969 - 1972 U.S. Air Force, Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio
Public Relations Officer, Staff Officer, Rank: Captain.

Board Chair - Oakland Business Development Corporation

Connie Magallanes

(510) 893-4228

Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

No

Spanish, French

Limited Liability Company - $1,500
Corporation (Any State) - $1,500
Shareholders' Agreement - $1,000
Non-Profit Corporation and Exempt Application - $1,000
Corporate or LLC Dissolution - $750
General Partnership Agreement - $1,000
Limited Partnership Agreement - $1,500
Asset or Stock Purchase of Business(for Buyer) - $1,500
Asset or Stock Purchase of Business(for Seller) - $1,000
Independent Contractor's Agreement - $750
Private Placement Memorandum and Filings - $3,500
Employment Contract - $1,000
General Contract - $500
Durable Power of Attorney - $150
Draft: Will - $350
Draft: Simple Trust + Pour-Over Will - $1,500; A-B Trust - $3,000

$300

I offer a free 15 minute consultation.

$3,000