Hidden Costs and Pitfalls—What Attorneys Must Know About Acting as Registered Agents for Their Legal Clients

Many law firms and attorneys offer their corporate clients the services of a registered agent. When they do so, however, they are assuming risks and potential costs that they may not have considered. This has been further complicated by additional risks owing to increased national security, and calls for laws that require registered agents to provide infromation about the business entities for which they act as registered agents.

If you are an attorney acting as a registered agent, this paper will inform you of the risks and potential costs that you assume in this role. This paper also provides attorneys an alternative – offering registered agent services to their clients by way of an established national commercial registered agent. By utilizing this option, the attorney preserves the advantages of providing registered agents to clients, while removing the risks and mitigating the potential costs.

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