Whaddya
do? There are lots of corporate
documents to draft when you form a corporation.
Whatever substantive provisions you want to have, you have to decide
where to put them (the articles of incorporation, the bylaws, or the shareholders’
agreement). Lately, people like to keep
the articles of incorporation as short as possible and only put in there what
is required by law. Everything else is
placed in the other documents.
The
trend in the law is to make it easy to incorporate. Some states require more formal procedures,
though.
After
you file the articles of incorporation, you have to do things like write the corporate
bylaws, and other stuff.