Our inaugural Tech Contracts Master Class™ series starts October 5
We are excited to launch our inaugural Tech Contracts Master Class™ series on October 5. Join us! And check out our webinars; next one is October 20. What are the Master Classes? What do they cover? These four online classes are a comprehensive series designed to cover all the essential topics in IT contracts – […]
Time to Get Back to School – with Tech Contracts Academy®
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 hour program covering all clauses typically found in IT contracts, in four classes), one hour+ topical webinars, and customizable in-house trainings (for groups, ranging from […]
Announcing our new Master Classes
We’re excited to announce our new Tech Contracts Master Classes™. Tech Contracts Master Classes™ provide an in-depth yet unusually concise, accessible review of all the clauses typically found in information technology contracts. The Master Classes program is broken into four sessions taught by your instructor, David W. Tollen, with live Q&A in each. Our inaugural program […]
Don’t grant or receive licenses to “use” software
Here’s a typical grant of rights from a software end-user license agreement (EULA): Provider hereby grants Customer a license to use 30 copies of the Software. Common though that clause may be, it’s dysfunctional. On-premise software licenses grant rights under copyright. And the copyright statute does not address a right to use anything. U.S. copyright […]
Western Banker’s Association Webinar – Recording Now Available
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 banks and other tech buyers can get the best terms for cloud computing contracts. It covers key issues at stake in SaaS and other cloud […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]