NEXT WEEK – Tech Contracts Academy’s LIVE webinars return

We hope you will join us NEXT WEEK on March 20, 2025 for our live webinar: Artificial Intelligence Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating. Artificial intelligence contracts raise new concerns, as well as familiar ones. They’re software agreements and so call for terms many software contract managers and lawyers know well. But certain AI systems raise unique issues, particularly generative AI […]

LIVE Tech Contracts Master Classes Return – Taught by David Tollen

We’re happy to announce that our LIVE Tech Contracts Master Class™ series for 2025 is open for registration. Join David Tollen, and learn how to negotiate information technology contracts better, faster, and with more confidence. David is known for his practical, accessible approach – and he focuses on business issues at stake in IT contracts. Keep up-to-date on […]

2025 Live Webinar Schedule and Registration Links: Tech Contracts Academy

Tech Contracts Academy’s 2025 LIVE public training schedule is here. Improve your information technology contracting expertise – join us! All courses are taught by David Tollen and include live Q&A. California CLE is available – including, for our May 22 webinar, Best AI and other Software for Contract Drafters and Negotiators, subfield credit (1 hour, […]

LIVE March 2025 webinar – AI Contracts

Registration is now available for our March 20, 2025 live webinar: Artificial Intelligence Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating. Join us! Artificial intelligence contracts raise new concerns, as well as familiar ones. They’re software agreements and so call for terms many software contract managers and lawyers know well. But certain AI systems raise unique issues, particularly generative AI and […]

Updated Course Announcement – Top 6 Mistakes

Let’s face it – Contracts about information technology are complex, and often confusing. (“SaaS?” “Cloud?” “On-Premise Software?” “Artificial Intelligence?” “Gen-AI?” “SLAs?”) And small mistakes in your contracts can be costly. We can help. We’ve recently updated our popular on-demand course, Top 6 Mistakes in SaaS, AI, and Other Cloud Agreements. This short (appx. one hour) course will help you avoid […]

Mark your calendars – Tech Contracts Academy’s 2025 LIVE training schedule is here

Mark your calendars – Tech Contracts Academy’s 2025 LIVE training schedule is here! Program details and registration links are coming soon; please keep an eye on your inbox or visit https://courses.techcontracts.com/p/live-webinars. 2025 Live Webinar Schedule: All courses are taught by David Tollen and include live Q&A. On-Demand Options:Want one year of access, to programs broken down into […]

Don’t grant a license to SaaS, AIaaS, or other cloud services

Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracts grant a “license” to the vendor’s software. So do a lot of other cloud services agreements – on offerings like PaaS and AIaaS (artificial intelligence as-a-service). That’s a mistake, at least in the U.S. and jurisdictions with similar copyright laws. Licenses authorize reproduction of on-premise software (generally). Customers don’t reproduce SaaS […]

Thoughts about our future jobs, from David Tollen

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 trainings help you draft and negotiate IT contracts better, faster, and with more confidence: www.TechContracts.com

New LIVE Trainings Coming in September

We invite you to join our live trainings this fall: Our Tech Contracts Master Class series runs Sept. 17, Sept. 24, Oct. 8, and Oct. 17, 2024. Four courses, two+ hours each. Don’t miss your chance to join us live, and ask David Tollen questions via chat. Keep current about best practices and cutting-edge issues impacting IT contracts. Plus, […]

Tech Contracts Academy Grows Course Catalog

Expert training helps professionals draft and negotiate contracts better, faster, and with more confidence.Tech Contracts Academy® has expanded its catalog of IT contract training courses, covering AI agreements, SaaS and other cloud computing contracts, software licenses, and related topics. Courses are for contract managers and other businesspeople and for lawyers. They are taught by one […]