Training and Tools for Closing Better Deals Faster – for Lawyers, Contract Professionals, Salespeople, and other Businesspeople

Effective and timely technology contracting requires knowledge of the logic behind each clause and of negotiation strategy. Yet few professionals receive thorough training or user-friendly tools.

Tech Contracts Chalkboard provides in-house training sessions and will soon offer downloadable audio trainings, as well as webinars and other public classes. Through our programs, you and your company or law firm will:

• Reduce the legal department’s workload by teaching other departments to negotiate better deals;
• Maximize contract managers’ and procurement professionals’ independence and ability to close deals;
• Teach salespeople to understand their lawyers and get deals through the legal department;
• Give lawyers the tools and techniques of the highest level IT/IP counsel; and
• Build a staff of lawyers and businesspeople with cutting edge knowledge of licensing, indemnities, warranties, service level agreements, source code escrows, clickwraps, limitations of liability, and much more, including clauses on privacy, information security, cloud computing, and software as a service.

Seminars and tools are provided by David Tollen, author of the American Bar Association’s bestselling manual: THE TECH CONTRACTS HANDBOOK – SOFTWARE LICENSES AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AGREEMENTS FOR BUSINESSPEOPLE AND LAWYERS.

Mr. Tollen has presented technology contracts seminars to a long list of audiences, including companies like Google, Allianz, Union Bank, and BMW, as well as the California CIO's office, the State Bar of California, bar associations in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco, the National Contract Management Association, the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and the Licensing Executive Society of the U.S.A. and Canada. He’s a co-founder Adeli & Tollen LLP, a technology and IP law firm, with offices in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Finally, he’s a Harvard Law School graduate and the former General Counsel of a publicly traded software company.

Our in-house training programs take place at your facility. Please call or e-mail us for pricing and scheduling information. And please see our public programs page for sessions available to all and for audio downloads.