Starting a new business: your legal and compliance checklist
The first few months of a new business can feel like wearing five hats at once — product, customers, pricing, hiring, and a growing list of “we’ll fix that later” admin. This checklist walks you through the key legal and compliance steps for a new Australian business start-up. From choosing the right business structure and registrations (ACN/ASIC/ABN/GST) to founder/shareholder agreements, IP and trade marks, contractor vs employee risk, privacy and data breach readiness (including AML/CTF reforms from 1 July 2026), and the core insurance policies worth considering.
Contract Playbooks: Move Faster, Stay Consistent, Cut Risk
Is your business still negotiating the same clauses on every deal? A contract playbook converts your organisation’s standards, strategy, and risk appetite into repeatable workflows. The result: faster approvals, improved consistency, and reduced risk without cutting corners. Learn how to build a contract playbook for your business. Latitude Legal provides legal support to help your business with its contracting needs, including playbook development, training workshops, and more.
What Outsourced In-House Legal Really Looks Like Day-To-Day
For most businesses, the day-to-day legal challenge is capacity and speed. This article explains what outsourced in-house legal looks like in practice—triage, faster contract turnaround, governance and cost control, and flexible engagement models that keep work moving. Includes outcomes, benefits, and a practical next step for comparing indicative options and pricing.
Your Contract Suite: Simple, Strong, and Scalable
A contract suite is more than just a bunch of templates. It’s a consistent system of customer, supplier, and contractor agreement supported by policies and a practical playbook that are designed to speed up deals, reduce disputes, and keep risk within agreed limits.
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