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Get it between 2024-12-31 to 2025-01-07. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
“Many lawyers and professionals draft and negotiate contracts with minimal training. They want to protect their company and clients but don’t know how. This book has 322 of my practical contract tips that explain exactly what to say, when to say it, and why in your commercial contracts.” – Laura Frederick In the expanded second edition of Practical Tips on How to Contract, commercial contracts attorney. entrepreneur, and social media thought leader Laura Frederick draws on her contract drafting and negotiating skills learned in over 25 years as a high-profile practicing lawyer in top law firms and companies like Tesla to offer real-world contract strategies to draft contracts and negotiate their terms. The second edition is an essential desk book every lawyer and contract professional needs. It includes more than 320 contract tips, each with easy-to-understand and relatable negotiation and contracting advice that will give you what you need to know to be confident and excel in any business situation. This contracts book is not your typical dry and boring legal book filled with legalese and tiny footnotes. It also includes some light-hearted lawyer humor illustrations to help drive home the points and add some fun while you learn. By reading Practical Tips on How to Contract, you will learn: Exactly what to say and when to say in each aspect of contracts, from licensing issues to SaaS agreements to the complex indemnification provisions Personal advice and examples from one of the world’s leading contract experts explaining her personal approach while working with Fortune 500 companies like Tesla, covering things like how to prepare amendments, how to select a contract template, how to define terms like services and deliverables, what not to put in an NDA, how to set the limits of liability and other damages, and what to include in a purchase order and statement of work. Invaluable conflict resolution techniques that you can use to prevent disputes with your customers and vendors, including how to talk about performance problems with your counterparty and a discussion of the pros and cons of arbitration compared to litigation Advice for working with technology-based contracts, including SaaS contracts, software licenses, and intellectual property assignments with details about drafting copyright, patent, and trademark licensing and assignment provisions. How to work with stakeholders and clients as a contracts lawyer. Including everything from figuring out client priorities to learning about their products and operations to becoming a valuable part of your law firm or business team Life-changing personal advice for a successful contract lawyer to help you go beyond knowing what to do but living your best career and life, with advice on how to let your greatness shine, overcoming self-doubt and anxiety, avoiding emotional detachment at work and what stands between you and happiness! Let’s face it. Contracts can be intimidating if you aren’t sure what to say and when in your drafting and negotiations. That’s why it is so critical get your guidance from somebody that has been there and done that, who worked for top law firms and companies managing the thousands of smaller deals and negotiating sophisticated billion-dollar deals. Practical Tips on How to Contract is a valuable resource that you will consult, whenever you are new to contract negotiation or just need a little reassurance or insight from a trusted friend that’s been exactly where you are now many times before. Why not start improving your contract skills and expertise today? Scroll up and order now.