Description
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.
Apply General Drafting Principles (15 minutes)
- Contract Basics
- Strategies to Draft a Clear Contract
- Repurposing Boilerplate Terms and Existing Contracts
State Contract Terms With Detail and Specificity (15 minutes)
- Why Detail and Specificity Matter
- Defining Performance With Specificity
- Defining Price With Specificity
Anticipate Dispute Resolution (20 minutes)
- Thinking About Dispute Resolution
- Dispute Resolution Types
- Form Selection Clauses
- Arbitration Clauses
- Indemnification Clauses
Manage Contract Modification (10 minutes)
- The Right Way to Modify Contracts
- The Wrong Way to Modify Contracts
- AR CLE 1.5
- This course has been approved for 1.5 hours of CLE by the Arkansas CLE Board.
- CA MCLE 1.5
- Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
- NM CLE 1.5
- This program has been approved by the New Mexico Minimum Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.5 hours of credit.
- NY CLE 1.5 including Areas of Professional Practice 1.5
- This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for up to a maximum of 1.5 credit hours in the area(s) of Areas of Professional Practice for 1.50 hours. Each hour may be counted only as satisfying one category of credit. Duplicate credit for the same hour of instruction is not permitted. This course qualifies for both established and newly admitted attorneys. Lorman Business Center, LLC. has a financial hardship guideline. Please contact customer service at 1.866.352.9539 for instructions on how to apply.
- OR CLE 1.5
- Approved for 1.5 CLE credits in Oregon.
- WA CLE 1.5
- This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
The CLE Code is ONLY a requirement when applying for CLE Credit in New York. Other states do not need to supply the CLE Code to apply for CLE credit.
To earn each credit Lorman offers through the OnDemand learning platform, you need to watch 100% of the program. Also, for certain credits you will need to fulfill additional requirements which will be displayed on the “credits” tab when viewing the course.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
