Owning a business built around alcohol must have seemed a good idea at the time. There is certainly money to be made, and some people are just great building a business based on customer camaraderie and good cheer. Maybe alcohol is the perfect pairing for your restaurant menu, or maybe you see profit potential in a retail store. How a liquor licensing attorney can save your startup business?

Here’s to you!

Whether you’re planning a bar, pop-up bar, restaurant, private club, or retails sales, here are 5 good reasons you need a liquor licensing attorney from the beginning:

1. First-aid: It ain’t easy to open and run an alcohol-based business. Every set-up requires a focused approach. Depending on the city, county, and state of your operation, there might be a score of different permits and licenses to choose from.
2. Planning: There’s a lot more to opening an alcohol-based business than hanging your sign out. You are not likely to satisfy lenders or investors without a seriously thought out and detailed business plan. If alcohol is part of that plan, their support will be demanding, regarding permitting, personnel, and bonding. The average business owner doesn’t have a grasp on the detail required.
3. Time: If planning takes time, so will the continuing operation. In a business subject to monitoring by federal, state, and local authorities, you need to give licensing and its demands a lot of time. And, because time takes you away from your operation,
4. Liability: Liquor licensing is a government’s attempt to vet those who would enter a risky enterprise. Liquor can present a health risk to consumers. It needs to be in the hands of trained and responsible servers. Abuse can put the safety of the general public at risk. And, as a source of taxes, controls have to be practiced and sustained.
5. Expertise: Liquor licensing law is a specialty. Confusing laws and expectations, complex forms and procedures, everything about the legal process works better, more efficiently and effectively with expert advice.

Why the Liquor Licensing attorney?

Business attorneys, in general, are educated to manage contracts and licensing. However, a liquor attorney save you precious business time and money by expediting your case.

The experienced liquor licensing attorney are best positioned to captain your business ship.

• They know the process and how to navigate the storms and swells presented by licensing bureaucracy.
• Forms and process are their process; it’s what they do.
• ?They know your jurisdiction and its specific mandates, whether you are local or out of state.
• When time is your enemy, they cut through tape and jump hurdles to open and maintain your business.
• They know what you and your business plan need before you do and how to present it effectively to your investors, partners, and lenders.

There’s profit in preparation

Consider only a short list of concerns that surround a liquor-based business:

• Administrative hearings, protest and appeal
• Legal compliance and registered agent services
• Purchase and sales of a business
• Dram shop and liquor liability
• Litigation defense
• Comptroller Audit assistance and defense
• Internal Revenue Service audits and criminal defense
• Insurance and bonding advice
• Insurance defense representation
• Tax Code violation defense
• Beverage Code violation defense

Starting and running a business that makes liquor an attraction presents challenges and risks best governed, supported, and defended by experts in liquor law licensing.