Interview at ColinSLevy.com
Colin Levy just posted an interview with our founder, David Tollen. Colin is corporate counsel at Salary.com, and he runs a great blog about legal innovation and legal technology, at ColinSLevy.com. Please click here to read the interview!
Most Innovative Information Tech Law Firm
We are very proud to announce that our founder’s law firm has won another award! Sycamore Legal P.C., was awarded Most Innovative Information Technology Law Firm 2019 – California, by Acquisition INTL Magazine. Here’s what AI magazine says about the award: “Our 2019 Global Excellence recipients are handpicked by AI magazine based on the comprehensive analysis and […]
David Tollen Teaching at UC Berkeley Law School
We are proud to announce that David Tollen, our founder and trainer, will soon begin teaching at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Starting in January of 2019, David will teach a course for both J.D. and Ll.M. candidates, called Tech Industry Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating Software Licenses, Cloud Computing Agreements, and Other IT Contracts. […]
Drafting Big, Complex Statements of Work
We’ve updated this post. Please click here for the new version. In contracts about complex services, the hardest terms to draft appear in statements of work. SoW’s for large projects demand long lists of duties from the vendor. And usually they’re interwoven with supporting tasks from the customer and its other suppliers, along with countless […]
Speaking at the IACCM Americas Conference
David Tollen will present a workshop at the IACCM Americas conference at the end of this month, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The conference is October 29 to 31, and David will be speaking on the first day. His topic is Simplifying IT Contract Negotiations. The workshop outlines the clauses that most often block contract negotiations — or […]
Don’t Write “Friendly” Contract Terms
We’ve updated this post with a new version. Please click here. By David W. Tollen Your client or colleagues wants “friendly” contract terms, to avoid offending the other side. For instance, you’re the vendor, and you have two pretty tough-sounding clauses in your standard terms. “Customer will be responsible and liable to Vendor for any […]
Should Your Contract Promise that You Will Obey the Law?
By David W. Tollen Many tech contracts require that one or both parties “comply with applicable law.” Or they require compliance with specific laws, like “all privacy laws and other laws governing the handling of Project Data.” Should you make that promise? What’s Wrong with Promising to Obey Applicable Law? You might think that that the […]
Mistakes Triggered by the Many Meanings of “Intellectual Property”
By David W. Tollen Tech industry professionals use “intellectual property” to describe two different creatures. They also use “IP lawyer” for a broad list of professionals with little in common. Few recognize the many meanings of “intellectual property”, so the term creates a lot of confusion — and screws up lots of contracts and other legal […]
Another Award for Our Founder’s Firm!
We are excited to announce that David Tollen’s law firm has won another award. Sycamore Legal, P.C. won Technology Sector Contracts Law Firm of the Year in California, for 2018 — from Global Law Experts. This is David’s and Sycamore’s fourth award in the last two years. Sycamore Legal won the 2018 Corporate INTL Magazine Global […]
Tech Contracts Class in Uganda
By David W. Tollen Last week, I taught a technology contracts masterclass in Kampala, in partnership with the largest bank in Uganda, Stanbic Bank. It was an amazing experience. We had a great audience of 200+ attendees, including lawyers, accountants, and entrepreneurs, and they were very engaged. Thank you so much to the Stanbic Bank […]