BUILDING TEAM

Startup Employment Lawyers: Ensuring Your Team’s Legal Foundation

NEXT and Shulman Rogers’ attorneys are experienced startup employment lawyers with a broad range of expertise, covering all aspects of building your team. From bringing on a consultant to forming your advisory board to hiring your first employee, working with us will provide you with ironclad legal documentation, protection of your intellectual property and other company assets and goodwill, and proper classification (“employee” vs. “independent contractor”). Our attorneys understand the unique challenges that come with hiring the right people for a startup and can help you avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that can have catastrophic consequences down the road.

NEXT’s fixed-fee legal formation packages cover the majority of startup needs when building a team. We can also customize our employment services to your specific legal and business needs. Some of our packages around hiring and engaging with talented people include:

• Consultant packages
• Advisory Board packages
• Employee packages

If you need assistance with employment for your startup, let the attorneys at NEXT and Shulman Rogers’ provide you with world-class representation that will ensure your goals are met while avoiding costly mistakes.

All Services

LAUNCH +

• Forming Company
• Building Team
• Granting Equity
• Protecting Intellectual Property

FUNDRAISING +

• SAFE
• Convertible Note
• Series Seed Preferred
• Crowdfunding
• Series A and Beyond

GROWTH +

• Growth Phase

What our Clients Say

"NEXT has been there every step of the way to help guide us through our seed round. The team has been fantastic!"

Julie Melnick, Founder/CEO of Sky Squad

"NEXT has made raising outside capital affordable and eliminated the unpredictable costs of the fundraising process. I found the Legal Fundraising Package included strategic guidance on managing the fundraising process and contained all the documents I needed to handle my equity round at a fraction of the cost of traditional law firm hourly rate pricing."

Andrew Hoppin, Co-Founder and CEO of CoverUs

"As a first-time entrepreneur, I found NEXT to be a great value not only for the startup legal services I needed but for the connections to the business service providers and other ecosystem partners, too."

Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, CEO, Goodworld

"Since our earliest days, Shulman Rogers has been a trusted and capable partner for Doctor.com. Their NEXT platform afforded us access to a full range of legal talent and services for significantly less than the cost of hiring an in-house general counsel. This was particularly valuable in the early years when budgets were tight and our legal needs were diverse. Since then, NEXT has been able to scale with us as we’ve grown, supporting the business through multiple financings and ultimately a successful exit."

Andrei Zimiles, Co-Founder and CEO of Doctor.com