July 15: Boiled Up in Boilerplate Contract Provisions: Creating Careful Contracts

Claude E. Ducloux, Board-Certified in both Civil Trial Law and Civil Appellate Law, by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and former Chair of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics will present a 60-minute webinar covering the dangers of using “my old form” for standard contract provisions, and discuss numerous ethical situations and implication of negligent drafting. This presentation will include:

• Defining boilerplate, examples, and usage;
• Strategies for ensuring that both the lawyer and client understand the effects;
• The necessity for consideration if additional provisions expand duties;
• The danger of choice of law provisions;
• Torts under choice of law;
• Use of waivers, and additional dispute resolution requirements, like arbitration;
• Defining damages, consequential and otherwise, profits, and indemnity;
• Ruined by severability clause of merger clauses to change the agreement; 
• Ethical rules and specific ethical situations related to contracts;
• Strategies to protect yourself and final advice
• Best practices.

Title:
Boiled Up in Boilerplate Contract Provisions: Creating Careful Contracts
Webinar Date+Time:
July 15, 2020
3pm CDT
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By:
LawPay
Speaker:
Claude Ducloux, LawPay's director of education, ethics and compliance, has nearly four decades of experience practicing law. Claude has earned many professional honors for his dedication to educating attorneys, including the Gene Cavin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Continuing Education.
Credit:
1 credit in many states; if your state is not on the list, you might try to self-apply for credit

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