Tech Contracting - Drafting to Avoid Disputes

Introduction

This new virtual classroom seminar will explore the principles for drafting to minimise IT disputes by highlighting what you should and should not do when drafting IT contracts.

It will also consider what you should draft in the contract to remove friction if a dispute does arise so that the parties can begin working with each other as quickly as possible to minimise roadblocks.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Prevention is better than cure:
  • Differences in relationship
  • Words to avoid ... and encourage
• Preparing to negotiate:
  • Tendering
  • Managing the negotiations
  • Pre-contract documents
  • Interim agreements and pre-contract contracts
  • Structure of IT agreements
• Disputes in IT projects
• Methods of dispute resolution: clauses to cope
• Disclosure issues
• Areas of usual dispute:
  • Software ownership issues: who owns it?
  • Software outside licence scope
  • Where is the licence anyway?
  • Open source

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.