Resources for drafting and negotiating better contracts.

Guides & Checklists

Contract Essentials for Lawyers Advising Startups

This ebook addresses the chaos inherent to advising a startup and the key elements of their most relevant contracts.

How to Use Recitals in Contracts

In this ebook, author Sonya Shaykhoun explains why the Recitals section should not be overlooked. More than an introduction, the Recitals section is your chance to tell a deal's story. That helps with both the substance of the agreement and gaining the benefit of the bargain. Download your copy today.

Employment Agreement Fundamentals

Targeted to companies who are hiring, this ebook shares tips for drafting useful and effective employment agreements.

Is Your Arbitration Clause Complete?

How do you know you drafted an effective arbitration clause? Download this ebook for a helpful checklist.

Contract Teardown

Nintendo Switch End User License Agreement (EULA)

Attorney Akash Kashyap tears down the Nintendo Switch End User License Agreement (EULA).

Cardi B's License Agreement

Entertainment attorney Julia Holt joins the Contract Teardown to discuss a license agreement between entertainment superstar Cardi B and an innovative alcohol brand.

Covid-era Master Services Agreement for Biotech

During ContractsCon 2023, Shavon Smith joined Mike Whelan live to tear down a biotechnology firm’s Master Services Agreement. MSAs are flexible agreements for chaotic times. See how this MSA helped a biotech firm during the Covid shutdown.

How ChatGPT changes the goals of OpenAI’s Terms of Service

Foster Sayers joins the Teardown to critique OpenAI's Terms of Service and how they apply to ChatGPT. Does the company's shift from businesses to consumers change how it drafts contracts? According to Sayers, perhaps it should.

Drafting

Y-Combinator SAFE Agreement Briefing

Matias expounds on his teardown of the Y Combinator SAFE Agreements, discussing why this document is important and some of the common practices to watch out for.

Cannabis Simple Agreement for Future Equity

The primary goal of the cannabis Safe is to address the regulatory complexities that come with raising money in the industry. For example, depending on whether a company is raising a priced round (i.e., selling equity at a fixed valuation) or a convertible security round (i.e., a Safe or convertible note), each triggers different regulatory reporting and/or approval processes.

Negotiation Skills – Art of Manipulation

The role of lawyers in a transaction ranges not only from document drafting and reviewing but also to negotiating. In fact, from my perspective, drafting and reviewing documents are the basic skills that each and every lawyer must be well-equipped with while negotiation technique is what defines an outstanding lawyer.

How to Write an International Commercial Arbitration Agreement

Successfully crafting an international commercial arbitration agreement requires the writer to incorporate certain fundamental elements into the text.

Featured

Law Insider to Co-Host ContractsCon 2023 

Law Insider, in partnership with Laura Frederick and How to Contract, is hosting ContractsCon 2023, a live training and networking event focused on practical contract drafting and negotiating skills for in-house counsel and contracts professionals.

Law Insider Completes First Legal Tech Investment and Distribution Partnership with Inkly

Law Insider Completes First Legal Tech Investment and Distribution Partnership with Inkly

Law Insider Announces Partnership with Eigen Technologies

Law Insider, the leading contract and clause database, today announces an exclusive partnership with Eigen Technologies, the global Document AI technology provider.

Cannabis Simple Agreement for Future Equity

The primary goal of the cannabis Safe is to address the regulatory complexities that come with raising money in the industry. For example, depending on whether a company is raising a priced round (i.e., selling equity at a fixed valuation) or a convertible security round (i.e., a Safe or convertible note), each triggers different regulatory reporting and/or approval processes.

Webinars

How to Leverage AI to Negotiate Contracts

Learn how contract professionals are using artificial intelligence to improve their work.

Force Majeure Webinar with Farshad Ghodoosi

Force majeure clauses are a hot topic in the post-Covid world. But how can you make more data-informed drafting and counsel decisions for your clients? Professor Farshad Ghodoosi shared his substantive research of thousands of force majeure clauses and cases during an exclusive Law Insider webinar. His insights clarify how courts treat force majeure language and help you craft better clauses.

How to Negotiate Compliance Contract Provisions

Ethics and compliance concerns pervade today’s business world. Companies worry about everything from conflicts of interest to ethics to anti-bribery. Because of their importance, it is critical that we properly address compliance in our contracts. Everyone who works with contracts needs to know what compliance provisions should say and how to negotiate them.

How to Negotiate Payment Contract Provisions

Precise and clear price and payment contract provisions are critical to the success of every commercial deals. While most attorneys and professionals have no problems drafting simple price and payment provisions, they may find themselves challenged when the terms and issues become more complex.

Premium Content

The ABCs of NDAs

A non-disclosure agreement might seem like a simple promise of confidentiality between two parties, but there’s a lot more to these contracts. This ebook can take the guesswork out of your next NDA.