Meet Attorney Klaus Gottlieb
Attorney Klaus Gottlieb is a California-licensed attorney who helps entrepreneurs, startups, and small business owners choose the right entity and form it correctly under California law—LLCs, corporations, professional entities, and the documents and elections that make them work in the real world.
What sets Attorney Gottlieb apart from standard filing services is integration. He doesn't treat business formation as paperwork. He treats it as the legal foundation for your tax strategy, personal wealth plan, risk management, and eventual exit.
The Integrated Approach
Most formation services focus on getting you filed. Attorney Gottlieb focuses on getting you structured.
From the start—equity splits, vesting, operating agreement terms, buy-sell triggers, governance, management rights, and tax elections—he helps you design an entity that aligns with:
- How you'll actually operate day-to-day
- What happens if an owner exits (or disputes arise)
- How profits, losses, and distributions will be treated
- How you plan to scale, raise capital, or bring in partners
- What you want your exit to look like (sale, acquisition, succession, or wind-down)
- How the business fits into your long-term wealth and estate planning picture
The goal is simple: reduce preventable surprises and avoid costly restructuring later.
Business + Analytical Pedigree
Before founding Wealth Care Lawyer, Attorney Gottlieb spent decades in high-level analytical and leadership roles. That background shows up in his legal work: clear structure, careful assumptions, and decisions grounded in logic—not marketing.
Legal Authority & Recognition
Attorney Gottlieb brings both practice experience and classroom-level command of the rules that govern California businesses.
- Selected to Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) for three consecutive years
- Notable Alumni, Northwestern California University School of Law
- Professor of Law, teaching Corporations and Wills & Trusts at Monterey College of Law
- Admitted to the United States Tax Court
- Completing an LL.M. in Taxation and Estate Planning at Golden Gate University
This blend matters because entity selection isn't just "LLC vs. S-Corp." It's governance, contracts, compliance, tax classification, and planning for what happens when circumstances change.
Why This Matters for Your Startup
Many founders build first—and hire lawyers later to untangle equity disputes, sloppy operating agreements, tax surprises, and preventable liability exposure.
Attorney Gottlieb helps you build correctly from Day 1.
Whether you need a straightforward LLC or a more complex professional entity, he brings the same philosophy to every formation: structure the business to match how you operate now and how you plan to grow, protect assets, and eventually exit—so your entity remains durable as the stakes get higher.