CONTRACT TRAINING AGENDA
DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY
Essentials and Strategies
Learn or refresh your core skills and work techniques
- Dive deep into the essentials of contracts to help you gain confidence in your skills.
- Learn from experienced mentors seated in each small group to guide you through learning bursts
- Insights from litigators who explain top ways contracts go wrong
- Our best techniques for using AI and other contract tools to make your job easier
- How to manage the impossible workload that comes with the surges of contract work.
DAY 2 - THURSDAY
Advanced Contract Drafting
Explore complex contract drafting issues and nuances
- The impact of advancing AI technology and increased regulation on our core commercial contracts
- Contract drafting approaches to better manage data, privacy and cybersecurity traps
- How to navigate the digital contract formation processes with links and rights to unilaterally edit terms
- How to create complex contract frameworks with multiple layers and interested parties
DAY 3 - FRIDAY
Negotiation Skills
Learn best practices and new techniques (some sessions only available in person)
- Techniques for building trust throughout even the most difficult negotiation for complex contract concepts when you can't get it wrong
- How to improve your preparation for negotiations to reach a better outcome and avoid mistakes
- Specifics about why and how to respond effectively even in the most challenging negotiation situations
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Training-tainment
(noun)
1. An approach to legal training created by How to Contract's Laura Frederick that incorporates the ridiculous and fun into practical legal skills education for law students and professionals.
- How to Contract was started in 2021 by Laura Frederick after spending 25+ years as an attorney in the trenches negotiating commercial contracts at international law firms and cutting edge companies like Tesla
- HTC focuses on providing actionable training with specific techniques that lawyers and professionals can use that day on contracts they see all the time
- We train on what to say, when and why explaining context and risk approaches we face in the real world of commercial contracts, focusing on what the words and concessions mean to your deal and risk.
- HTC has helped thousands of lawyers and professionals around her world through her 3+ year streak of posting contract tips and silly cartoons on LinkedIn every single day
ContractsCon 2024 Speakers and Hosts
Nada Alnajafi
Founder @ Contract Nerds; Senior Counsel @ Franklin Templeton
Tiffany Bui LeTourneau
Former Uber AGC, Head of Legal Ecosystem @ Common Paper
Maria Amelia Calaf
Partner @ Botkin Chiarello Calaf
Min Cho
General Counsel @ Jeff's Bagel Run
Kwame Christian
Founder and CEO @ American Negotiation Institute
Sommer Coutu
Chief Privacy Officer @ Dell Technologies
Hebe Doneski
Former SaaS GC, now in solo practice @ 108 Legal
Marlene Eisenberg
Former GC, now legal consultant
Annmarie Giblin
Former cybersecurity lawyer @ Chubb, Partner @ Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin
Ross Guberman
Founder and CEO @ BriefCatch
Keld Jensen
Negotiation Strategist and Associate Professor Counsel @ BMI Institute
Krysta Johnson
Head of Legal Ops @ Lexion
Lisa Lang
General Counsel @ Ohio Northern University
Shai Mehani
CEO and Co-Founder @ In-House Connect
Gabe Meister
Former GC, Co-Founder @ Meister & Steiner PLLC
Amanda Merced
Former in-house AI counsel, now Partner @ Ward & Berry
Sterling Miller
CEO and Senior Counsel @ Hilgers Graben
Jessica Nguyen
Chief Legal Officer @ Lexion.ai
Jonathan Perkel
General Counsel @ Qapital
Joe Regalia
Founder @ Write.law, Professor @ UNLV School of Law