Kentucky LLC formation under KRS Chapter 275, operating agreements drafted to fit your ownership structure (not a 50-state template), basic commercial agreements, employment offer letters, and the routine paperwork that makes a small business actually work.
A small-business legal matter is scope-variable — forming a single-member LLC reads differently than a multi-member operating agreement, a commercial lease for a new location, and a buy-sell structure. So we start with a free 20-minute scoping call to put shape on the work before pricing it.
Step 1 — Scoping call (20 min, free). We talk through the business, the entity choice, and the right document shape.
Step 2 — Conflict check. Standard conflict check against the parties before taking the matter.
Step 3 — Engagement letter. Scope and flat fee in writing. The published prices below are real — the engagement letter quotes the specific tier that fits your matter.
Step 4 — Drafting. LLC formation, operating agreement, commercial lease, buy-sell, demand letter — drafted to your facts, not a 50-state template.
Note: $299 base LLC formation IS catalog-shape work (Articles of Organization + EIN + annual-report calendar) — and the Kentucky LLC operating agreement is now a Cornerstone catalog document too ($199 single-member / $399 multi-member, Kentucky-attorney review included, at bluegrasscornerstone.com). Standalone buy-sell structures, commercial leases, and operating agreements with bespoke capital or voting complexity remain JL Direct custom drafting. See /flat-fees for LLC formation ($299–$499), operating agreement, and commercial-lease ($999–$1,999) pricing.
Most Kentucky small-business legal work is foundational and transactional — the documents that make the business operate. Forming the entity correctly under KRS Chapter 275 (LLCs), drafting an operating agreement that fits the ownership structure, putting basic commercial agreements in place with vendors and customers, hiring the first employee or contractor, and building the records-and-meetings discipline that protects the entity's liability shield.
The Kentucky LLC operating agreement — single-member or multi-member — is available through the firm's Cornerstone catalog with the attorney review included. For documents that affect title, control, or significant money in bespoke ways — standalone buy-sell structures, operating agreements with unusual capital or voting complexity, partnership disputes — the firm drafts directly.
Articles of Organization filed with the KY Secretary of State (you can file these yourself; the firm handles them as part of the engagement). Custom operating agreement drafted to fit your ownership structure — not a 50-state template. Initial resolutions, EIN coordination, and the first-year compliance calendar.
The standard Kentucky operating agreement — single- or multi-member, with capital contributions, allocations, voting, distribution priorities, and a basic transfer / buy-out article — is our Cornerstone catalog instrument ($199/$399, attorney review included). JL Direct custom drafting is for what the catalog template deliberately does not reach: special or preferred allocations, multiple unit classes, officer structures, and investor or securities-adjacent rounds. Drafted to your facts.
Cross-purchase or entity-redemption buy-sell structures, valuation methodology, funding mechanics, and the integration with each owner's estate plan.
Vendor agreements, customer agreements, services agreements, simple licensing. Drafted from scratch or review of a counter-party draft.
Employment offer letters, independent-contractor agreements, basic employee handbooks. Coordination with the LLC operating agreement on profit-sharing and equity if applicable.
For routine Kentucky documents that fit a fixed-fee template — the Kentucky LLC operating agreement ($199 single-member / $399 multi-member, Kentucky-attorney review included), wills, powers of attorney, and transfer-on-death deeds — see the Bluegrass Cornerstone catalog (a DBA of this firm under KRS 365.015) at bluegrasscornerstone.com. Single- AND multi-member operating agreements are Cornerstone catalog documents ($199/$399, attorney review included). LLC formations, buy-sell obligations, commercial leases, and operating agreements that go beyond the catalog scope — special allocations, multiple unit classes, investor structures — are drafted directly under JL Direct. See /flat-fees for JL Direct LLC formation, buy-sell, and commercial-lease pricing.
We talk through the business, the entity choice, and the right document shape. No engagement letter at the scoping call — that comes after.
$299 base: Articles of Organization (KRS 275.025) drafted and filed with the Kentucky Secretary of State; EIN registration; Kentucky annual-report calendar setup. $449 single-member / $649 multi-member (full): Everything in base, plus the Kentucky LLC operating agreement under KRS Chapter 275 delivered inside the formation — the same instrument our Cornerstone catalog publishes at $199 single-member / $399 multi-member (attorney review included), with a formation-bundle credit applied. Special or preferred allocations, multiple unit classes, and investor structures go beyond the catalog instrument and are quoted as JL Direct custom work in writing.
$599 baseline: Simple two-member LLC buy-sell, single triggering event (death OR disability), fixed-price valuation. $1,299 complex: Multi-member buy-sell, multiple triggering events (death / disability / withdrawal / termination / divorce), valuation formula (book value, multiple-of-EBITDA, or independent appraisal), funding mechanism (life insurance), tag-along/drag-along rights, ROFR.
How this differs from the catalog operating agreement: our Cornerstone operating agreement ($399 multi-member) already includes basic transfer restrictions and a named-method buyout. The buy-sell agreement is the next step — a binding, funded, multi-trigger obligation with valuation and closing mechanics — and we reconcile it with your operating agreement as part of the engagement.
Scope: LLC-context only. Corporate shareholder buy-sell under the Kentucky Business Corporation Act (KRS 271B) is priced separately under engagement-letter amendment.
Single pre-suit demand letter (breach of contract, unpaid invoice, security deposit recovery, tort pre-suit). Includes legal-claim assessment, statute-of-limitations check, damages quantification, and settlement-frame analysis. Commercial and individual claims; consumer-debt-collection engagements are screened separately.
Vendor agreements, customer agreements, services agreements, simple licensing. Drafted from scratch or counter-party review. Flat fee quoted at consult.
For routine fixed-template documents — including the Kentucky LLC operating agreement ($199 single-member / $399 multi-member, attorney review included) — see the Bluegrass Cornerstone catalog at bluegrasscornerstone.com.
Single- and multi-member operating agreements are Cornerstone catalog documents ($199/$399, with Kentucky-attorney review included) — a good fit when your governance is standard. Anything that goes beyond the catalog's enforced scope — special allocations, multiple unit classes, investor structures, standalone funded buy-sell obligations, partnership disputes, and ownership transitions — needs custom attorney drafting to fit the facts, and that is JL Direct.
