The startup and small business marketplace is still a new and fierce frontier that requires legal advice from an attorney who is deeply entrenched in the particularities of how an entity should be structured and taxed. Our firm gives you a holistic approach so your entity may obtain the best competitive advantage in regards to asset protection, organization, management, control, and taxation by the State and IRS. The question of how an entity should be taxed is based on who will be the owners, what are the goals in the ownership of the entity, what is the growth potential, what operations will be conducted inside the entity, and what are the ultimate business succession/estate planning goals of the owners of the entity. The asset protection component of this strategy is based on asset protection planning at the State and Federal level for the following two factors: (1) personal judgment creditor protection for the shareholder/member/partner; and (2) business asset protection for the assets inside the entity. Both strategies must be covered and planned for when an entity is created.