Conducting An Annual Business Compliance Review:
Using the Annual Meeting to Reduce Your Legal and Regulatory Risk is the definitive operational compliance guide for LLC and S Corp owners who built their business to protect their personal assets — and want to keep it that way. Written by compliance attorney John Fisher, this book is designed for the business owner who knows compliance matters but has never had a practical, attorney-authored system for doing it right. It speaks directly to the 33 million small business owners in the United States who are one missed annual meeting, one unsigned resolution, or one sloppy corporate formality away from losing the liability protection their entity was designed to provide.
Unlike generic legal compliance websites, one-size-fits-all checklists, or expensive attorney retainers, this book delivers a structured, repeatable annual review system that a real business owner can execute without a law degree. It transforms the “annual meeting” — which most small business owners either skip entirely or perform as an empty ritual — into a powerful legal shield, a tax-optimization opportunity, and a strategic business review. This is not a book about theory. It is a working manual, complete with checklists, resolution templates, and chapter-by-chapter compliance walkthroughs across every major risk area: corporate formalities, employment law, contracts, intellectual property, insurance, and regulatory reporting.
- The Annual Meeting is the solution, not a formality. Used correctly, the annual meeting is the single most powerful compliance tool a small business owner has. This book transforms it from an empty ritual into a full legal and operational review.
- Compliance is not a cost — it’s an investment. Every missed formality, every unsigned resolution, every ignored compliance deadline is a potential liability. The cost of this book is a fraction of one hour of attorney time in a lawsuit.
- Your advisors can’t do this for you. Your CPA, bookkeeper, and business coach each cover their lane. Legal compliance is the gap this book was specifically written to fill for small business owners.
This practitioner-authored guide presents a comprehensive annual compliance review system for limited liability companies (LLCs) and S corporations, organized around the annual meeting as the primary compliance event. Written by compliance attorney John Fisher, the work addresses ten compliance domains — including corporate formalities, employment law, intellectual property, insurance, contracts, and regulatory reporting — with chapter-by-chapter checklists and ready-to-use corporate resolution templates.
The book is designed for use by business owners without legal training and serves as a practical reference for CPAs, bookkeepers, and business advisors who support small business clients. The text draws on practitioner experience in business law and is relevant to small business compliance across all U.S. jurisdictions.
Appropriate for public library business collections, academic libraries supporting entrepreneurship and small business management programs, and law school libraries with small business law resources.