About Tech Contracts Academy®

Our Founder, Your Teacher

David W. Tollen is one of the industry’s leading authorities on software licensing and cloud computing agreements. His particular expertise is in making complex topics easy to understand and engaging — and he’s been widely recognized for both.
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Our Company

Tech Contracts Academy®, LLC offers training and tools to help companies, government agencies, lawyers, and contract staff do tech contracts better, faster, and with more confidence. We seek to bring clarity to this complex, ever changing area.

Tech Contracts Academy® uses David Tollen’s perennial American Bar Association IP bestseller, The Tech Contracts Handbook, as the foundation for its training and tools. We also rely on David’s forte for taking big, complex topics and making them simple, clear, and user-friendly.

We offer a wide range of courses about IT contracts – our comprehensive Tech Contracts Master Classes™ (four courses, 2 hours each) and our shorter “Focused Topics” (each 1.25 to 1.75 hours). We can also customize courses specifically for in-house teams, to suit their special needs. Scroll down for details.
We deliver our programs in three formats to best fit your needs and schedule:
  • (i) live public webinars (with two weeks’ to 30 days’ access to a recording after);
  • (ii) on-demand programs, broken down into concise topic or contract clause chapters, available for one year; and
  • (iii) in-house, provided by video conference or at your offices. (We can also give in-house teams blends of those formats.).
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ANYONE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOFTWARE LICENSES OR CLOUD CONTRACTS BENEFITS, INCLUDING:

  • • Procurement and contract managers
  • • IT staff and project managers
  • • Lawyers – both In-House and at law firms
  • • Tech Sales People
  • • Insurance agents (reviewing SaaS, software, and cloud contracts)
  • • Executives
With little or no formal training on tech contracts, many professionals expose themselves and their companies to expensive mistakes. Learn-as-you-go education and a lack of confidence often leave contract negotiations bogged down by uncertainty and open the door to disputes and litigation.
Training and other resources from Tech Contracts Academy® speak in plain English. They give professionals confidence in their knowledge and skills – with the goal doing better deals faster.

California CLE Credit

Tech Contracts Academy is an approved provider for Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) credit in California. Our public programs offer CA CLE; in-house programs vary. Jurisdictions (and professions) may differ on whether students may apply individually for credit, and if so what is required. See here for details about CLE.

Testimonials

"David's expertise and deep knowledge of tech contracts is unparalleled, and his training has had a transformative impact on our team's skills and capabilities. He has an exceptional ability to break down complex concepts into practical frameworks that our attorneys can readily apply in their day-to-day work. "
Shannon YavorskyPartner, Orrick
“... Tollen’s Tech Contracts Handbook offers a comprehensive mix of plain-language guidance and tech licensing best practices. Tollen (writes) with an expert hand, born of his experience drafting and negotiating tech agreements in Silicon Valley’s virtual trenches.”
Tom JevensCorporate Counsel, Google Inc.; Lecturer, Santa Clara University School of Law
“An exceptionally helpful and concise book that should be on the desk of every lawyer who drafts licenses and contracts or wants to learn how…”
Ian BallonExecutive Director Of Stanford Law School’s Center For E-Commerce; Tech Law Author
“Once again David Tollen has done the impossible ... taken one of best treatises on IP contracting and made it even better.”
H. Ward ClassenLegal Counsel, Accenture, LLP; author of Software Licensing for Licensees and Licensors
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