Workflow: Create corporate bylaws

Category: Draft

This workflow is designed to help you generate or amend corporate bylaws, using trusted Practical Law Standard Documents as the foundation.

Features and benefits

  • This workflow makes creating (or amending) corporate bylaws quick and easy.
  • Simply select your jurisdiction and corporation type, and provide any supplemental information.
  • If you choose, CoCounsel will retrieve the most suitable Practical Law Standard Document and customize it based on the information you provide.

Practice tips

  1. Instruct CoCounsel in the chat: "Help me draft corporate bylaws."
  2. Choose between
    Create new bylaws
    and
    Create an amendment
    .
  3. Use the dropdown to select your jurisdiction.
  4. Check any statuses that apply to your corporation. Options include:
    • Public
    • Private
    • S-Corp
    • Nonprofit
    • Professional-Service
  5. Include any other instructions or drafting notes to describe your company or tailor your bylaws.
  6. Check whether to include Practical Law Drafting Notes.
  7. Select
    Draft bylaws
    .
  8. CoCounsel will draft corporate bylaws, which you can download.

Limitations to keep in mind

  • This workflow will only draft bylaws that apply to United States corporations.
  • This workflow won’t draft bylaws that apply to LLCs.
  • Given different combinations of corporation type and jurisdiction, there may not always be available an exact document match in Practical Law. In that event, the workflow will retrieve the closest match available.
  • The workflow requires a Practical Law subscription in addition to a CoCounsel subscription but is available to subscribed users in the CoCounsel user interface.

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