Outcome-Driven Descriptions in Big, Complex SoWs
This week’s musings on tech contracts… The SoW for a large IT development project generally features a long list of duties for the vendor. But
February 6, 2025
This week’s musings on tech contracts… The SoW for a large IT development project generally features a long list of duties for the vendor. But
In this short video, our founder, David Tollen, discusses the terms and nature of nondisclosure agreements – in collaboration with Adam Stofsky and our friends
This week’s musings on tech contracts… I love light, casual, friendly language. In fact, I wrote a book that’s known for it: for explaining legal
This week’s musings on tech contracts… You’re negotiating a contract, and you send your company’s standard form agreement. The other party then marks it up
This week’s musings on tech contracts … Here’s a proposition: we should NOT seek shorter or simpler contracts where those goals contradict our higher priority:
Watch this video for some encouraging (and non-typical) thoughts about our future jobs, from David Tollen. And if you’d like hone these very skills, our
Recently, David Tollen spoke on a LinkedIn Live hosted by ScreensAI. You can watch a recording of the conversation by clicking the image below, or
The parties to IT contracts generally agree that the limit of liability (LoL) won’t apply to indemnities. After all, if one party takes responsibility for
IT indemnities almost always address third party claims. That generates confusion, and contract-drafters often don’t even realize they misunderstand. Most clauses address the relationship between
Feedback licenses and assignments create a mess for the customer. And they’re not necessary for the vendor. Here’s a better clause.
This just in: The European Union adopted its “adequacy decision” for the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). The U.S. launched its process by which
This is the second of a three-post issue-spotter about contracts related to artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on gen-AI. Click here for the first
Contracts about artificial intelligence raise most of the same issues as other software agreements. But they raise unique issues too, particularly when they involve generative
Tech contracts use indemnities to address third party lawsuits. The indemnitor promises to defend a lawsuit against the indemnified party and to pay any judgments.
This is what I call a nuclear indemnity: “Vendor shall indemnify Customer against any third party claim arising out of or related to Vendor’s breach