April 20: Boiled Up in "Boilerplate" Contract Provisions: Creating Careful Contracts

In this one-hour CLE webinar, LawPay's Director of Education, Claude Ducloux, will explore the dangers of using “my old form” for standard contract provisions as well as numerous ethical situations and implications of negligent drafting. This presentation will cover the following:

• 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 provisions;
• 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; and
• Best practices for contract provisions.

Title:
Boiled Up in "Boilerplate" Contract Provisions: Creating Careful Contracts
Date+Time:
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
03:00pm to 04:00pm CDT
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - register now!
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 - NOTE WELL:

The sponsor does not presently have CLE credit registered for any state; from the content and speaker you may decide to self-apply for credit in states that allow it.

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