We’re happy to announce that our LIVE Tech Contracts Master Class™ series for 2025 is open for registration. Join David Tollen, and learn how to negotiate information technology contracts better, faster, and with more confidence. David is known for his practical, accessible approach – and he focuses on business issues at stake in IT contracts. Keep up-to-date on best practices, including about contracts for artificial intelligence. For lawyers, and other professionals responsible for information technology contracts.
Every tech lawyer should take this course. David has mastered the ability to deliver complex tech concepts in simple fashion.
– Former Master Class Student
In four webinars, with live Q&A, running weekly on Thursdays from Sept. 25 to Oct. 16, 2025, learn the key clauses in contracts about AI, SaaS, on-premise software, and other IT products and services. Each runs just over 2 hours, and is taught by David Tollen, author of the American Bar Association’s perennial best-seller, The Tech Contracts Handbook.
In addition to the live webinar, you receive access to a recording (limited time – 30 days), written materials to reinforce your learning (course slides), and certificates of attendance. (California CLE available; details below.) Each Master Class may be purchased individually, or at about a 9% discount as a four-course bundle.
Interested in viewing a sample? Each individual class page has a link to a sample lesson from a previously recorded version of the course, available to view prior to purchase.
Your instructor is the founder of Tech Contracts Academy®, LLC, David Tollen. David is an attorney whose professional experience includes serving as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company, and as VP of Business Development for a tech startup. He began his career at a global law firm, and ultimately founded his own firm focused on IT contracts. David graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley (where he also serves as a lecturer). He also serves as an expert witness and consultant in litigation related to software licenses and other information technology contracts.
CLE: 2 hours CA CLE per Master Class; 8 hours for series. See each course’s sales page for details, and a link to our CLE page. Tech Contracts Academy’s courses (Master Classes™ and Focused Topics) are approved for Continuing Legal Education credit in California (participatory for live courses; self-study for on-demand; general credit, unless a subfield is indicated on a course’s sales page). Licensed for elsewhere? Jurisdictions (and professions) differ as to whether students may apply individually for continuing education credit, and what is required. (Materials we make available may assist students’ self-submission efforts, but are not guaranteed.)
Terms of Use: Tech Contracts Academy® LLC is not a law firm, does not provide legal services, and its courses do not provide legal advice. Course participation is subject to our Terms of Use, available on each course’s sales page for you to review prior to purchase.