Learn preventative drafting techniques that improve a contract’s enforceability and position your client for success.
Billions of dollars in goods and services are conveyed by contracts. When disputes arise, they can jeopardize any business. This course will help people who draft contracts master strategies for crafting clear contract language that protects the contract from unenforceability claims. Learn how language with detail and precision can decrease risks relating to a lack of clarity, including dissatisfaction with the other party’s performance and claims of non-performance. Explore various dispute resolution provisions and how to assess which one is best suited for your situation. Discover the importance of managing contract modifications and how a modification clause designed to protect your client may threaten the enforceability of the entire contract. You will gain a better understanding of preventative drafting techniques that improve a contract’s enforceability and position your client for success.
Agenda
Apply General Drafting Principles
- Contract Basics
- Strategies to Draft a Clear Contract
- Repurposing Boilerplate Terms and Existing Contracts
State Contract Terms With Detail and Specificity
- Why Detail and Specificity Matter
- Defining Performance With Specificity
- Defining Price With Specificity
Anticipate Dispute Resolution
- Thinking About Dispute Resolution
- Dispute Resolution Types
- Form Selection Clauses
- Arbitration Clauses
- Indemnification Clauses
Manage Contract Modification
- The Right Way to Modify Contracts
Speakers
Mark P. Henriques,
Womble Bond Dickinson- Partner in the Charlotte office of Womble Bond Dickinson, your transatlantic firm close to home
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of e-discovery and business litigation
- Conducts regular seminars and workshops on contract drafting, e-discovery, litigation strategy, and managing legal spend
- J.D. and B.A. degree, Law Review, Order of the Coif, University of Virginia
- Can be contacted at Mark.Henriques@wbd-us.com or on Twitter® @cltlawyer
Who Should Attend
This program is primarily designed for attorneys. Other legal and purchasing professionals may also benefit from attending.
