FOR LAWYERS AND IN-HOUSE CONTRACT TEAMS
Everything you need to learn contracts.
Uplevel your contracting with our free webinars and materials, or invest in your skills and skyrocket your career with our paid membership program. Either way, you’ll learn from contract experts, not LLMs sharing patterns but missing nuance.
Ready to invest in better contract skills for you or your team?
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Register for ContractsCon 2026
Join our two-day training extravaganza in Philadelphia on October 13-14, 2026. We’ll train you how to draft and negotiate 40 AI product and MSA provisions during our core training sessions. If you want a conference that actually teaches the legal and business judgment you need to draft and negotiate contracts, this is it.
Take classes
Our 30 hours of structured courses walk you through the contract concepts and provisions you work with every day. Live sessions give you the chance to ask questions in real time. Topics include NDAs, IP and licensing, indemnification, services agreements, and more.
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Learn from all our free training
Subscribers get access to more free resources. We are expanding our subscriber-only training assets, including more lessons, more PDF downloads, and more exclusive video segments.
Meet our expert speakers
How to Contract’s roster of speakers includes 100+ lawyers and professionals who generously share their expertise and insights with our contracts community.
Become a member
Our membership provides the courses and library you need to get the answers to your contract questions.
Take classes
Our 30 hours of structured courses walk you through the contract concepts and provisions you work with every day. Live sessions give you the chance to ask questions in real time. Topics include NDAs, IP and licensing, indemnification, services agreements, and more.
Get certified
Our three certifications let you demonstrate your expertise. Members earn certifications in commercial contracts, indemnification provisions, and NDAs. Each certification requires you to complete the relevant courses and pass module-based assessments.
Find the answers
Our library gives you access to 220+ hours of expert training, 500+ playbook strategies, and 400+ practical tips, all searchable through AI that cites the response from experts. You’ll get links back to a course module, contract tip, program, or other primary resource.
Who is our membership for?
Our membership serves lawyers and contract professionals at every stage. Whether you are building foundational skill, keeping pace with sophisticated work, or training a team, the Program meets you where you are.
Lawyers and professionals new to contracting
Build your foundational skills
You know the basics about doing deals and what goes into business transactions. Our membership gives you the practical knowledge, playbooks, and expert reference material to learn how commercial contracts actually work.
Experienced lawyers and teams in the trenches
Sharpen your existing expertise
You know what you do well, and you know where the gaps are. The membership fills them with focused training on specific provisions, negotiation strategies, and curated expertise from lawyers in the trenches.
Leaders scaling contracting expertise
Enhance your team’s performance
You want your team to handle contract work with consistency and judgment. Your team gets structured training, certifications, and a working library, with progress you can measure.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
All our training is created and curated by Laura Frederick
Laura Frederick is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on commercial contracts. She spent 25+ years negotiating deals, including at Tesla and in Big Law, and wrote the book Practical Tips on How to Contract. Through How to Contract, she and her curated group of contract experts train thousands of lawyers and contract professionals every year on drafting, negotiation, and contract operations.
She maintains the high quality standard behind everything from How to Contract. She picks every speaker, creates every course, and designs every webinar and training program.
