Tech Contracts Master Classes™

In four on-line Tech Contracts Master Classes™ we cover all the essential topics in IT contracts, with live Q&A (students’ written questions, submitted via the chat feature) with our presenter, David Tollen:

  • Prime Clauses: License, Subscription, IP Transfer, Payment (2 hrs.)
  • General Clauses: Data Management, SLAs, Confidentiality, and other General Clauses (2 hrs.)
  • Key Liability Terms: Indemnities, Warranties, and Limits of Liability (2 hrs.)
  • End-Game and Special Clauses: Disputes, Termination, Special Terms, and OSS (2 hrs.)

David Tollen teaches all our courses

Taken together, these four courses will prepare you to negotiate contracts about software and cloud services with more confidence, more efficiently, and help you avoid common pitfalls. The program suits lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, executives, and IT professionals.

Each class is available once per series. See below and registration pages for more details. Enrollment available now for:

    • Jan. 2023 Series: January 10, 12, 19, 26.
    • Click here to register for the full series (w/full series discount: $1,395). To arrange registration for individual classes instead ($395 each), please e-mail info@techcontracts.com.

      If you experience any difficulties completing your order on-line, please reach out asap to info@techcontracts.com. (Some international addresses occasionally create problems for the e-commerce platform). If this should occur, we will do our best to find a work-around for you – and will appreciate your patience.

Attend all four courses and receive an automatic 10%+ discount (for a total of $1,395), and a Tech Contracts Master Classes™ Certificate of Series Completion. 

Group Discount – Obtain an additional 10% discount when 5 or more from a company attend all four Master Classes in the same series. Contact info@techcontracts.com for details and to arrange a group discount code to use during enrollment. (Only one discount code may be used per registration).

Attend any Master Class and receive a 35% discount on The Tech Contracts Handbook (when purchased direct from publisher – ABA), the program slides, a Certificate of Completion, and access to that program’s recording for a set 30 day period that begins shortly after the live class.

CLE: We are pleased to announce that as of July 2022, Tech Contracts Academy has been recognized as a Multiple Activity Provider (MAP) of CLE in California. The Master Classes are appoved for 2 hours credit per class, 8 hours for the series. For more information and current CLE status please click here.

Master Class™ topics include:

Title Agenda
PRIME CLAUSES, Tech Contracts Master Class:

License, Subscription, IP Transfer, Payment

Date/Time 

  • Next: January 10, 2023

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST

Cost: $395  (if purchased individually)

 

 Introduction

1. General Intro
2. Contract drafter’s job
3. IP in IT contracts

Types of Deals and Prime Clauses

4. Type of tech deals
5. The prime clause

Prime Clauses in Action

6. On-premise software license
7. Subscription for SaaS and other cloud services
8. Promise of professional services
9. Software ownership transfers
10. Combination agreements
11. Promise of Payment (including go-live and other timing issues, and revenue recognition)

Q&A (live responses, to students’ written questions)
GENERAL CLAUSES, Tech Contracts Master Class:

Data Management, SLAs, Confidentiality, and other General Clauses

Date/Time

  • Next: January 12, 2022

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST

Cost: $395 (if purchased individually)

 

 General Clauses

1. Technical specifications
2. SLAs
3. Business continuity and disaster recovery
4. Services descriptions
5. Delivery, acceptance, and rejection
6. Nondisclosure

Data Clauses

7. Privacy and security law
8. Defining, owning, and licensing data
9. Use of data, including aggregate
10. Compliance with privacy and security law
11. Data location, access, deletion, and e-discovery
12. Data security
13. Audits and testing
14. Data incidents
15. Provider-friendly data terms

Q&A (live responses, to students’ written questions)
KEY LIABILITY TERMS, Tech Contracts Master Class:

Including Indemnities, Warranties, and Limits of Liability

Date/Time

  • Next: January 19, 2023

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST

Cost: $395 (if purchased individually)

 1. Warranties
2. Indemnities
3. Provider liability for 3rd parties
4. Limits of liability
5. Liquidated damages

Q&A (live responses, to students’ written questions)
END-GAME AND SPECIAL CLAUSES, Tech Contracts Master Class:

Disputes, Termination, Special Terms, and OSS

Date/Time

  • Next: January 26, 2023

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PST

Cost: $395 (if purchased individually)

 1. Term & termination
2. Transition and deconversion
3. Non-solicit and noncompete
4. Dispute management, mediation, arbitration, waiver of class actions, and jury trials
5. Ancillary IP Terms
6. Assignment, change of control, and divestiture
7. Choice of law and courts
8. Order of precedence
9. Amendment
10. Open source software

Q&A (live responses, to students’ written questions)
Entire Series:

Prime Clauses
General Clauses
Key Liability Terms
End-Game and Special Clauses

Date/Time

  • Next: January 10, 12, 19, 26, 2023

Cost: $1,395 (includes full series, 10+% discount)

 See class details above
Previous Series Dates
Series 1 & 2     Fall 2021 Series 1: October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021

Series 2: November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 2021
Series 3           Winter 2022 January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 2022
Series 4           Spring 2022 April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 2022
Series 5 & 6   Fall 2022 Series 5: September 13, 20, 27, October 4, 2022

Series 6: October 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 2022