Tech Contracts Academy's next training will be our June 15 webinar, Top 6 Mistakes in Cloud Computing Contracts. Registration is available now. You can see an excerpt of this webinar... read more →
Our series of Tech Contracts Master Classes™ continues on Thursday, April 28th. Don’t wait – enrollment is available now. Our webinars continue also: On May 17, don't miss Dissecting a Vendor-Friendly... read more →
Our next series of Tech Contracts Master Classes™ continues on Thursday, April 21st. Don’t wait – enrollment is available now. Eager to hone your skills in negotiating and evaluating software and... read more →
Our next webinar is on April 19th: Data Privacy Terms in Tech Contracts. And our four-class Tech Contracts Master Class™ series is under way. Details below. We hope you will... read more →
Our next series of Tech Contracts Master Classes™ begins Thursday, April 14th. Don't wait - enrollment is available now. Eager to hone your skills in negotiating and evaluating software and... read more →
Looking for training about technology contracts? Master Classes: Our next series of four on-line Tech Contracts Master Classes begins April 14th and runs weekly until May 5th. Each class focuses... read more →
Our four Master Classes each focus on a different topic that, when combined, cover the essential topics for understanding and negotiating technology contracts. The next series runs from April 14... read more →
On March 30 at 10 a.m. PDT, join us for a free discussion at the Tech Contracts Academy page on LinkedIn. David Tollen and Kathy O'Sullivan will discuss strategies for... read more →
Our four Master Classes each focus on a different topic that, when combined, cover the essential topics for understanding and negotiating technology contracts. The next series runs from April 14... read more →
Our four Master Classes each focus on a different topic that, when combined, cover the essential topics to understanding and negotiating IT contracts more effectively. See below for a highlight... read more →
April will be a busy month full of trainings to help you gain confidence in drafting and negotiating tech contracts. We will have a one-hour webinar on April 19th featuring... read more →
When should we worry about open source software (OSS) in our supplier's software? How should we address OSS when we provide software, SaaS, or other cloud services? Is copyleft truly... read more →
Expand your contracting expertise with Tech Contracts Academy’s on-line Tech Contracts Master Classes, topical webinars, and blog posts. And on March 2, don’t miss David Tollen’s free discussion of OSS... read more →
In Q2 of 2022, Tech Contracts Master Classes™ are back, on four Thursdays from April 14 to May 5. We also have one-hour webinars, one each in the months of... read more →
Series 3 of our Tech Contracts Master Classes ends on February 10th with End-Game and Special Clauses: Disputes, Termination, Special Terms, and OSS. We hope you will join us! If... read more →
Don't miss the third Master Class in our series, the popular Key Liability Terms: Including Indemnities, Warranties, and Limits of Liability. We also hope you will join us on February... read more →
Happy New Year! As you plan to expand your tech contracting knowledge in 2022, consider enrolling in Tech Contracts Academy's trainings - which include live Q&A with David Tollen: Tech... read more →
2021 was packed with our popular, on-line public trainings, including nine webinars and two full series of Tech Contracts Master Classes™. Now's the time to plan how you'll enhance your... read more →
Everyone should know about a new movement: open source contracts. Products and services would be sold under terms posted online by uninvolved third parties -- and widely accepted by the... read more →
Here are two vital tips for software distribution contracts. They're for any software provider retaining another company as a distributor. That includes value-added reseller (VAR) and original equipment manufacturer (OEM)... read more →
We recently discussed typical IP issues in tech contracts, live on LinkedIn. If you have a LinkedIn account, you can watch the program, which lasts just 25 minutes ... and... read more →
Some companies refuse to accept California law for their deals. In most IT contracts, that's a mistake. California Employment and Consumer Protection Laws These anti-California companies worry that the state... read more →
Tech Contracts Academy® distance learning opportunities include Tech Contracts Master Classes™, webinars, and customizable in-house trainings. All are for lawyers and businesspeople, and provide complex content in an understandable, engaging... read more →
This fall is the time to expand your information technology contracting expertise. Don’t wait! Join us. Tech Contracts Academy® distance learning opportunities include Tech Contracts Master Classes™ (a 7 ½... read more →
In service contracts, termination for convenience clauses often call for a long notice period. The customer (usually) can terminate for any reason, but it has to give 90 days' notice... read more →
During 2020, we developed terms to address Covid-19: a clause that lets the customer suspend professional services and provides a procedure to restart. It looks like we're not out of... read more →
We're excited to announce that we've posted a complete new library of clauses here at TechContracts.com. ABA Publishing is about to release the 3rd edition of my book, The Tech... read more →
“Don’t cross the streams,” says Egon in Ghostbusters (the 1984 original). “It would be bad.” Why? “Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule... read more →
Some intellectual property indemnities exclude claims about IP registered after the contract's effective date. The tech provider argues that it shouldn't be responsible for IP it didn't know about when... read more →
Cloud services providers often say they can't negotiate their SLAs. All customers get the same SLA, so customizing terms for one customer would require changing procedures used for everyone. That's... read more →
IT providers often argue that they can't negotiate service level agreements (SLAs). They're right in most cases, but with important exceptions. SLAs govern procedures for fixing broken technology, as well... read more →
An assignment clause governs whether and when a party can transfer the contract to someone else. Often, it covers what happens in a change of control: whether a party can... read more →
Today, we updated one of Tech Contract Academy's key sample contract forms: the Hybrid Cloud Agreement with Professional Services. It's available to you, along with the rest of our forms,... read more →
Contract drafters regularly confuse cloud services with traditional products and services. They approach software-as-a-service and other cloud services as if they were either software products or old-style services, like professional... read more →
The one hour webinar David Tollen presented on December 3rd is now available online. Click here to access it through our host, The Western Banker's Association. The presentation addresses how... read more →
On August 26, David Tollen will be speaking at the 2019 Education Summit & Regulatory Compliance Conference -- a Western Bankers Association (WBA) event. David is giving the Technology &... read more →
Most SaaS vendors rely on automatic renewal terms -- and love them. If the customer doesn't think to cancel shortly before the term ends, the contract automatically renews. But the... read more →
The feedback license appears in many tech contracts. It usually gives the vendor a broad, perpetual license to any "feedback" from the customer's staff: any suggestion about the vendor's products... read more →
Recently, I sat down for a “Thought Leader” discussion on the Coming to the Table video podcast. It’s a program on the future of negotiation, hosted by Keld Jensen and the Thunderbird... read more →
Some businesspeople and lawyers debate whether proposed contract terms would be fair. I think that’s an unhelpful view of contracts, for two reasons. First, it’s hard or even impossible to... read more →
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... read more →
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... read more →
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 --... read more →
Today, David Tollen was interviewed on Ugandan television about his upcoming training program in Kampala -- and about technology agreements in Africa. (This YouTube version seems to pause for a... read more →
By David W. Tollen You're negotiating a contract, and you send your company's standard form agreement. The other party then marks it up -- "redlines" it -- and sends it... read more →
