As you enter your second year of operations, you may find it valuable to check in with your attorney to see if there are any items that could use their attention. It could include Human Resource planning, contracts, licenses, intellectual property protections, updated regulations. Etc.
You should complete the following tasks before proceeding to the current one.
Similar to your conversation with the accountant, you should give a final check with your attorney to make sure you have minimized exposure to risk. In addition you should have following items in order by completion of this phase:1. Any partner agreements fully executed.2. Employee agreements drafted and executed.3. If you have independent contractors, you should have a contract template for them and know how they will differ from your employees.4. Employee Handbook. 5. Contracts, license agreements, terms and condition, warranties, and waivers for customers if necessary.6. Intellectual Property Protection such as Trademarks, Copywrites and Patents (a patent takes a long time and a lot of effort to file. This may not be needed).7. Any other legal documents you may need to safely conduct business operations.
List of resources, subject matter experts, trusted partners, and tools that can be useful to complete the task.
Don't stop now! Just pick the very next stage-card that resonates with your business and continue working on the correspondent tasks.