How to form Professional Corporation or professional LLC in the District of Columbia?
• For professional corporation, use Articles of Incorporation of Professional Corporation* • For Professional LLCs, use Articles of Organization of Limited Liability Company* Professional Corporations must have P.C. or Professional Corporation or Chartered as a part of its name. Professional LLCs must have PLLC or Professional Limited Liability Company as a part of its name. What is acceptable purpose for professional corporations or LLCs? A professional corporation may be organized solely to render professional services through its shareholders, directors, officers, employees, or agents who are themselves duly licensed to render the particular service, and to render service ancillary thereto. A professional corporation may employ persons, who are not licensed, but such persons shall not perform professional services; and no license shall be required of any person who is employed by a professional corporation to perform services for which no license is otherwise required. What are the
