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 developed over 25 years as a high-profile practicing lawyers 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 that every lawyer and contract professional needs. It includes more than 320 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 text filled with legalese and tiny footnotes. It also includes light-hearted legal 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 in common provisions found in commercial contracts, from licensing issues to SaaS agreements to complex indemnification provisions
- Personal advice and examples from one of the world's leading contract experts explaining her personal approach covering things like how to prepare amendments, how to select a contract template, how to define terms like services and deliverables, what to put in an NDA, how to set limits of liability and other damages, and what to include in a purchase order and statement of work
Let's face it. Contracts can be intimidating if you aren't sure what to say, when and why in your drafting and negotiations. That's why it is so critical that you get guidance from someone who has been there and done that, who worked for top law firms and companies managing thousands of deals and negotiations.
