Innovative Contract Drafting Strategies: Designing vs Writing a Contract
Minimise your contract risks and avoid costly interpretation disputes by exploring innovative and practical drafting strategies. Learn when and how to implement unique contract drafting tools such as tables, timelines, flowcharts, diagrams, pictures, annotations and more. For each tool you will explore real world examples of how organisations are utilising them to make their contracts more clear and effective while minimsing risk and potential disputes. WEB2110N05E
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Innovative Contract Drafting Strategies: Designing vs Writing a Contract
Contracts with page after page of nothing but traditional clauses and legalistic text often fail to achieve significant commercial purposes and can lead to costly interpretation disputes. Forward thinking companies are at the forefront of a trend toward innovative contract drafting strategies that can make your contracts more clear & effective while minimising risk & disputes.
- Work through examples of innovative contract drafting tools, including the strengths and weaknesses of each, when and how to use them, and real world examples of their use and effectiveness, including:
- Table of Contents, Headings, and Frequently Asked Questions
- Conversational Style
- Worked Examples
- Tables, Timelines, and Flowcharts
- Journey Maps and Checklists
- Comic Contracts
- Companion Icons and Annotations
- Visualisations: Diagrams, Pictures, and Photographs
Presented by Steven Brown, Chairman, Etienne Lawyers
Presenters
Steven Brown, Chairman, Etienne Lawyers
Steven Brown is highly experienced lawyer with an extensive knowledge in all aspects of commercial law, with an intimate knowledge of the Corporations Law and the Australian Securities Exchange business and listing rules, being involved in corporate structuring, compliance, corporate takeovers, company floats, the preparation of prospectuses, employee share schemes and advising on directors' duties, and insolvency and securities law and practice. Steven currently lectures: in the Masters of Banking Law Course conducted by Macquarie University; in the Master of Finance for FINSIA in the areas of securities and insolvency and contract law and law, regulation and ethics; and for the Property Investors Association of Australia in security law and practice.