Purchasing Law LIVE SEMINAR - July 29 2010, 8:30am - 4pm PDT, Santa Clara, CA

June 27, 2010 - PRLog -- PURCHASING LAW ( A Professional Seminar )
   Purchasing & sourcing professionals must be familiar with the basic principles of modern business law and understand how these principles affect supply decisions ...

   with M. Dean Sutton, J.D., Sutton Law Firm & Santa Clara University School of Law

   When: July 29, 2010, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (Thursday)
   Where: Hilton Santa Clara, 4949 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
   http://www.eparagon.com/library/HiltonSantaClara.pdf

   REGISTRATION EMAIL: Seminars@ismsv.org
   REGISTRATION URL: http://catalog.ismsv.org/browseGroup.cfm?item_group_id=91797
   ISM MEMBER FEE: $360. | NON ISM MEMBER FEE: $480. | Includes a Contential Breakfast & Boxed Lunch |

   WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND:
   Learn all of the practical subtleties of purchasing law and contracts, method you can take to protect your organization from expensive liability, how to provide remedies if contract terms are not met, and how to ensure the quality of goods and services legally.

   This session will guide you through the maze of contract law and the Uniform Commercial Code. Special emphasis will be placed on the "How to" of reading and understanding the code and complicated legal clauses.

   WHAT WILL BE COVERED:
   Introduction, Sources of Law, "Law v. Equity"
   -Restitution, Quasi-Contract
   -Applicable law
   Common Law for purchase of Services
   UCC for purchase of Goods
   Consumer Protection laws

   Remedies for Breach
   -Litigation
   -ADR: Arbitration
   Mediation

   Common Law of Contacts
   -Mutual Assent: Offer and Acceptance
   -Consideration
   -Capacity
   -Agency, Authorization
   -Lawful Object
   -Writing Required?

   Role of the UCC in Purchasing
   -Battle of Forms
   -Warranties
   -Merchantability
   -Fitness for Particular Purpose

   Contract Interpretation
   -Covenants and Conditions
   -Breach
   -Defenses
   -Damages and Other Remedies

   Third Party Beneficiaries
   -Assignment of Rights
   -Delegation of Duties

   Public Policies Affecting Contracts
   -Consumer Protection Statutes
   -Consumer Warranties and Disclaimers

   Bankruptcy

   INSTRUCTOR:
   M. Dean Sutton, J.D., graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Cum Laude, and Santa Clara University School of Law. Dean is licensed to practice law in all state courts in every county in California and Colorado, and also in U.S. federal courts in the Northern District and Eastern District of California, the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

   Mr. Sutton has also taught courses in the SCU Institute for Paralegal Education, Cal State Hayward, and West Valley Community College. He has taught contract law; real property law; real property finance, mortgage, and foreclosure law; constitutional law; and purchasing law under Article 2 of the UCC.

   He teaches continuing education seminars approved by the California State Bar for lawyers and by the California Department of Real Estate for real estate brokers.

   EDUCATION HOURS: 7.00 ISM Continuing Education Hours awarded by the Institute of Supply Management of Silicon Valley

   REGISTRATION EMAIL: Seminars@ismsv.org
   REGISTRATION URL: http://catalog.ismsv.org/browseGroup.cfm?item_group_id=91797
   ISM MEMBER FEE: $360. | NON ISM MEMBER FEE: $480. | Includes a Contential Breakfast & Boxed Lunch |

   Sponsored by:
   Institute for Supply Management [ISM] - Silicon Valley
   P.O. Box 32156, San Jose, CA 95152

   Olivia Semanik | olivia.semanik@ismsv.org
   Customer Service Operations Desk

   Day Phone - 408 497 8042
   http://ismsv.groupsite.com

   The Only Institute of Supply Management Affiliate Authorized in the
   San Francisco South Bay, Peninsula, Silicon Valley, San Jose, Palo Alto,
   Fremont, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Gilroy, Morgan Hill & Salinas Area

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Founded in 1915, the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) is the largest supply management association in the world as well as one of the most respected. ISM’s mission is to lead the supply management profession through its standards of excellence, research, promotional activities, and education. ISM’s membership base includes more than 40,000 supply management professionals with a network of domestic and international affiliated associations. ISM is a not-for-profit association that provides opportunities for the promotion of the profession and the expansion of professional skills and knowledge.