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# Awesome Legal [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg)](https://awesome.re)



Awesome free legal documents for companies



Documents that use [plain language](https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-case-for-plain-language-contracts) are marked with :tada:



The information in this repository is for informational purposes only and is not intended to convey or constitute legal advice. Licensed under [CC0 1.0](LICENSE.txt).



## Contents



- [Site Policies](#site-policies)

- [Customer Agreements](#customer-agreements)

- [Employee Agreements](#employee-agreements)

- [Consulting Agreements](#consulting-agreements)

- [Advisor Agreements](#advisor-agreements)

- [Investor Agreements](#investor-agreements)

- [Founder Agreements](#founder-agreements)

- [Non-Disclosure Agreements](#non-disclosure-agreements)

- [Libraries](#libraries)



## Site Policies



Terms of service, privacy policy, and more



- [GitHub](https://github.com/github/site-policy) :tada:

- [Basecamp](https://github.com/basecamp/policies) :tada:

- [Automattic](https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic) :tada:

- [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/policies/)

- [Medium](https://github.com/Medium/medium-policy)

- [Common Paper](https://commonpaper.com/standards/terms-of-service/)



## Customer Agreements



Sales agreements



- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/sales_agreement/)

- [Common Paper - Cloud Service Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/)

- [Common Paper - Professional Services Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/professional-services-agreement/)



There are also agreements in many of the [site policy](#site-policies) resources.



## Employee Agreements



Employee IP agreements



- [GitHub - Balanced Employee IP Agreement](https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement) :tada:

- [Rackspace - Model IP and Open Source Contribution Policy](https://processmechanics.com/2015/07/23/a-model-ip-and-open-source-contribution-policy/)

- [Orrick](https://www.orrick.com/en/Total-Access/Tool-Kit/Start-Up-Forms/Employment-and-Consultant)

- [Cooley](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/form-employee-confidential-information-inventions-assignment-agreement/) (California employees)



Employee offer letters



- [Orrick](https://www.orrick.com/en/Total-Access/Tool-Kit/Start-Up-Forms/Employment-and-Consultant)

- [Cooley](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/form-employee-offer-letter/) (California employees)



## Consulting Agreements



- [Orrick](https://www.orrick.com/en/Total-Access/Tool-Kit/Start-Up-Forms/Employment-and-Consultant)

- [Cooley](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/form-consulting-agreement/)



## Advisor Agreements



- [Founder Institute - Founder / Advisor Standard Template (FAST)](https://fi.co/FAST)

- [Cooley](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/form-advisor-agreement/)



## Investor Agreements



Seed



- [Y Combinator - Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE)](https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/#safe)

- [Series Seed](https://github.com/seriesseed/equity) (and [Cooley Fork](https://github.com/CooleyLLP/seriesseed))

- [Bloomberg Beta](https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Investment-Documents)



Series A and later



- [Y Combinator - Series A Term Sheet](https://www.ycombinator.com/series_a_term_sheet/)

- [NVCA - Model Legal Documents](https://nvca.org/model-legal-documents/)



## Founder Agreements



- [UPenn](https://www.law.upenn.edu/clinic/entrepreneurship/startupkit/founders-agreement.pdf)



## Non-Disclosure Agreements



Mutual



- [Cooley](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/form-non-disclosure-agreement-mutual/)

- [Common Paper](https://commonpaper.com/standards/mutual-nda/)



One-way



- [Five Minute Law](https://fiveminutelaw.com/2018/06/04/the-plain-language-nda/) :tada:

- [Cooley](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/form-non-disclosure-agreement-one-way/)



## Libraries



Resources with a large range of documents.



- [Orrick - Startup Forms Library](https://www.orrick.com/Total-Access/Tool-Kit/Start-Up-Forms)

- [Cooley - Document Generators](https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/index-document-generators/)

- [UPenn - ELC Startup Kit](https://www.law.upenn.edu/clinic/entrepreneurship/startupkit/)

- [Common Paper](https://commonpaper.com/standards/)