Your Contract De-constructed: What Your Lawyer Knows And Is Not Telling You

Sept. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- WHAT IS IT ABOUT
Managers and business owners are increasingly involved in the task of negotiating and signing contracts. A lack of crucial understanding of how and why certain clauses must be drafted in a certain way may result in excessive legal costs, delays in getting the crucial deal and assuming unacceptable risks. Our seminar promises to be very popular, as it specifically focuses on the needs of business people dealing with contracts. It is a fast, effective and clear way to obtain the skills and confidence to understand commercial contracts.
The course is about helping those without formal legal training, who have to deal with legal documents, specifically commercial contracts, understand better what they are looking at. The aim is to allow you to get to grips with what your legal documents more quickly and effectively, thus saving literally thousands of pounds in saved legal fees and managerial time.

WHEN AND WHERE
Thursday 10 November 2011
At: Palladia, Heathrow Business Centre,
6-9 The Square, Stockley Park,
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB11 1FW
           
WHAT WILL YOU GET OUT OF IT
Your improved contracting skills and know-how will help you to:
•   Save legal costs, by engaging your lawyers less and more efficiently.
•   Minimise negotiation deadlocks.
•   Ensure the contract meets your needs.
•   Manage business risks.
•   Draft clear and unambiguous contracts to help you achieve your commercial objectives.
•   Get transactions moved along faster, to get more business done.
•   Solve disputes the easy way.

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
Do you wish to take your drafting skills to the next level? Attend our new practical seminar on drafting commercial contracts, to increase your knowledge and practice your drafting skills, with an experienced practitioner.
This intensive programme has been designed to give you practical guidance on the drafting and use of the “legal” clauses in commercial contracts. The rights and liabilities created as a result of warranties and indemnities can create complex legal problems for contracting parties and third parties. In the first part of this session we will understand the key points of a contract and discuss the enforceability of letters of intent. We will also discuss some of the most important boilerplate clauses, their legal background and how they should be used and drafted. In the second part, there will be plenty of time to analyse, learn and draft the perfect liability clause.
 
KEY BENEFITS
1. Learn how to get to grips with complex legal issues, arising from these clauses.
2. Learn how to negotiate clauses, which limit liability for contractual claims.
3. Gain practical experience of drafting techniques.
4. Receive free “boilerplate” templates.
5. Receive two of the most common and widely used templates for your further unlimited use.
6. Receive free guidance on drafting business terms and conditions.

ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER
Dr. Maria Anassutzi, an intellectual property specialist lawyer and mediator, with vast experience in general corporate commercial law, specialising in information technology, e-commerce and outsourcing, is founder and director of niche intellectual property practice Anassutzi & Co limited. Her clients include both suppliers and users of technology, Universities, inventors and telecom companies and businesses. Maria is a prolific writer on intellectual property, e-commerce and IT and given Maria's intellectual property expertise, she is regularly invited to present to seminars and holds workshops on intellectual property and information technology related issues.

HOW MUCH IT COSTS
1st Delegate: £250.00
2nd Delegate of the same company: £150.00
Book easily by calling us on 07788 726446
OR
By emailing us at  maria@anassutzi.com

PROGRAMME
09.00 - 09.30: Light breakfast and Registration

9.30 - 10.15: Essential contract terms, heads of terms and letters of intent

10.15 - 11.15: Best and reasonable endeavours; force majeure and other key boilerplate clauses that you should know and use

11.15 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00: Drafting the perfect liability clause, explanation, examples, what to avoid and what to do, hands-on exercises

13.00 - 14.00: Light lunch and opportunity to ask questions

14.00 Close

For more information, please visit www.anassutzi.com

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Dr. Maria Anassutzi, an intellectual property specialist lawyer and mediator, with vast experience in general corporate commercial law, specialising in information technology, e-commerce and outsourcing, is founder and director of niche intellectual property practice Anassutzi & Co limited. Her clients include both suppliers and users of technology, Universities, inventors and telecom companies and businesses. Maria is a prolific writer on intellectual property, e-commerce and IT and given Maria's intellectual property expertise, she is regularly invited to present to seminars and holds workshops on intellectual property and information technology related issues. She has advised clients on IP management and conducted in-house training on confidentiality, intellectual property and other related issues to senior management and board members.
More information on www.anassutzi.com

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