Tuttle Law Group

The Wall Street Journal covers a recent study showing how employee ownership can boost the bottomline.

Conversions to worker and other cooperative forms of business are on the rise. Contact us for more information and a free consultation.

The NYT had an *excellent* article today on the growing movement to create platform cooperatives as an alternative to the on-demand, exploitative "sharing" economy companies such as Uber and TaskRabbit. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com//a-new-wrinkle-in-the-gig-economy-w

See the latest article about the clinic that Tuttle Law Group Attorney Sushil Jacob created: CLINIC HELPS CO-OPS SET UP SHOP New blog entry at: http://www.cooplawgroup.com/blog/

Converting businesses to worker co-ops might become more popular as a wave of baby boomer generation retires, according to this article from Co.Exist. Brendan M...artin of The Working World agrees: "Either these businesses close and we get sudden great unemployment, or we take an opportunity for wealth distribution and demographic inclusiveness." See more

The Center for Urban Pedagogy just released a beautifully designed guide to worker cooperatives. Check it out! https://impactdesignhub.org//worker-co-ops-explained-cent/

Tuttle Law Group Attorneys Therese Tuttle and Sushil Jacob spoke at the California Center for Cooperative Development Annual Conference this past Friday, April 29th. They covered how to raise capital from your members and from the community, using the new coop securities exemption in AB 816. They also spoke about transitioning your business to a cooperative.

Check out our blog post on using preferred shares to raise capital for your cooperative. http://www.cooplawgroup.com/journal/

Sushil Jacob will be speaking about the new worker coop law tonight at 7:30 at Box Dog Bikes in the Mission. Join him and members of the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives. http://nobawc.org/upcoming-events/

Interested in starting a new business? Want to join a cooperative to help you launch? Our client-- Uptima Business Bootcamp-- a business accelerator organized as a cooperative-- is open for applications! http://oakland.uptimabootcamp.com/apply

This is a great article on the limits of the sharing economy-- and the possibility of building user-owned alternatives. Tuttle Law Group is pleased to be working with some platform coop startups! http://www.govtech.com//Can-Co-ops-Disrupt-the-New-App-Bas

Tuttle Law Group has launched!

Check out our newsletter!