Train with Tech Contracts Academy, and enhance your contracting skills. This September, we offer a Tech Contracts Master Class series and a webinar, Top 6 Mistakes in SaaS and Cloud Services Agreements. And later in the year, there’s another Master Class series, and more webinars. All taught by industry expert, author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, David Tollen.
Our classes are conveniently available via distance learning, with access to recordings afterward for a limited time. They benefit lawyers and businesspeople engaged in contracts involving technology, including contract managers. We are approved for CLE in California, and offer discount codes for teams and (for webinars only) individuals who sign up for multiple 2023 webinars. We hope to see you soon.
September Tech Contracts Master Class Series
Taken together, our four Tech Contracts Master Classes will prepare you to negotiate contracts about software, cloud services, and professional services more confidently and efficiently, and help you avoid common pitfalls.
Our September series runs once weekly on Thursdays, from Sept. 7-28. Conveniently available via distance learning (with recordings available afterward on request, for a limited time), each class is two hours, and includes Q&A.
Most students choose to take all four classes (with an automatic series discount). (And there’s also a 10% discount available to company teams of 5 or more). But classes are also available to purchase individually.
Prime Clauses (Sept. 7): A contract’s central promise and transaction. The promise of cloud services; license to on-premise software; promise of professional services. Frequently, contracts have a combination. And … the promise to pay.
General Clauses (Sept. 14): Commercial clauses (such as technical specifications, SLAs, business continuity and disaster recovery, non-disclosure) and data clauses (including location, security, incidents, privacy, audits).
Key Liability Terms (Sept. 21): Warranties, indemnities, limits of liability, provider liability for 3rd parties, and liquidated damages.
End-Game & Special Clauses (Sept. 28): Term & termination; transition and deconversion; non-solicits and noncompetes; dispute management, mediation, arbitration, waiver of class actions, jury trials; ancillary IP terms; assignment, change of control, divestiture; choice of law and courts; order of precedence; amendment; open source software.
Sept. 12 Webinar: Top 6 Mistakes in SaaS and Cloud Services Agreements
Small mistakes can cost a fortune in SaaS and other cloud computing contracts. This popular webinar will help you avoid the most typical errors, ranging from simple to subtle.
Topics include:
- Misunderstanding fundamental cloud computing concepts
- Confusing cloud/SaaS subscriptions with software licenses or professional services
- Focusing on data ownership instead of data control
- Losing a good deal over data breach indemnities
- Doing SaaS escrows wrong
- Accepting SLAs with eyes closed
Webinar Discounts: Register 5 or more from the same company for this webinar, and enjoy a 15% discount. NEW: For a limited time, an individual discount is available – enroll in one webinar at full price (starting with the July 2023 webinar), request a 10% discount code to use when enrolling in subsequent 2023 webinars. Contact [email protected] before registering for details and to obtain a discount code.
- Key Liability Terms in Tech Contracts: Warranty, Indemnity, Limit of Liability, and More (October 12)
- AI in the Legal and Contracting Professions: Today and Tomorrow (November 16)
- Payment Terms in IT Contracts: Get Paid, Don’t Overpay, and Avoid Common Mistakes (February 13, 2024)
- Top 7 Worries for Vendors in IT Contracts: Getting the Terms You Need, Even From Big Customers (March 12, 2024)
- The Indeminar: Indemnities in Tech Contracts (April 16, 2024)
- IP Terms in Tech Contracts: Licenses, Open Source, and More (May 21, 2024)
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CLE. Tech Contracts Master Classes™ and Tech Contracts Academy’s webinars are approved for Continuing Legal Education credit in California. Licensed elsewhere? Jurisdictions (and professions) differ as to whether students may apply individually for continuing education credit, and what is required. Materials we make available for Tech Contracts Academy’s programs (e.g., slides, presenter’s biography) may assist students’ self-submission efforts. Check here for more details about CLE.
Discounts: See program registration pages for information about group discounts (teams of five or more from same company, for same program: 10% off a full Master Class series; 15% off any webinar). And, NEW: For a limited time, a 10% discount is also available for individuals – after enrolling in one webinar at full price (starting with our July 2023 webinar), returning students may request a 10% discount code to use when enrolling in subsequent webinars through the end of 2023. Contact [email protected] for more information, and to obtain a discount code prior to enrolling. (Only one discount code per program may be used. Individual discount does not apply to Master Classes).
Our presenter. David Tollen founded Tech Contracts Academy® LLC. An attorney, instructor at U.C. Berkeley Law School, and expert witness, he authored the American Bar Association’s perennial bestseller, The Tech Contracts Handbook (ABA Publishing; 3rd ed. 2021). It is available from Amazon here, and other retailers.
Tech Contracts Academy® is a professional training company, created to bring confidence and expertise to professionals responsible for technology contracts. It provides public and in-house training on drafting and negotiating IT agreements. Contact us here or email [email protected] for more information about training for just your team.
Our programs provide general education, not legal advice. This communication is not, and our programs are not, advertising to provide legal services. Only one discount code may be used per registration.