LIVE webinars this spring from Tech Contracts Academy
Registration is now available for our 2025 live webinars. First up: For program details (and information about other live 2025 webinars), please see below. Enroll in our live webinars and you can ask David Tollen questions (via chat). And, you get access to a recording for 30 days after, even if you can’t make the live event. As […]
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 […]
New Enterprise Training Options
We’re excited to announce new enterprise options for IT contracts training: new ways for companies and government agencies to train the whole team and save. You can now buy your staff all-access passes (coming soon for individuals too) – or you can buy a la carte with volume discounts. If you’d like to learn more, […]
A contract should read like instructions for building furniture – or an aircraft carrier
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: CLARITY. Brevity, simplicity, and clarity overlap, but they’re not the same. Clarity does often lead to shorter and simpler contracts. In fact, good writing itself leads to shorter and simpler […]
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
August 13 LinkedIn Live: Legalese and Complexity
We hear that contracts should be clear and brief. We also see the opposite: baffling, medieval-sounding language, reading like a charter from the king. What’s the best path? Your contract doesn’t need to be pretty. It’s the source code for a deal: a technical, sometimes intricate guide. On top of all that, you need language […]
Recording of recent LinkedIn Live with David Tollen now available
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 by clicking here. Event description: In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way legal professionals work and it’s crucial to understand the […]
Educational videos partnership with Briefly
Tech Contracts Academy and David Tollen have partnered with Adam Stofsky and Briefly Inc. to create a series of short, concise videos, covering contract basics. The videos are a part of Briefly’s contract education video library, a resource that helps educate businesses about contracts. See an example below in this blog post. You can access a selection of […]