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This week's newsletter covers why we should add 'derived' to the list of problematic AI contract terms, upcoming free CLE webinars, a law firm insures its autonomous agents, plus a meme and four contract tips.
Join Laura Frederick, Robby Reggers, and Marta Hovanesian in this webinar on September 1, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they cover the GDPR concepts that drive how DPAs, SCCs, and vendor terms get negotiated.
We use ‘derived’ thinking that the plain language meaning is good enough. But this imprecise phrase may prove to bea future battleground for AI contract disputes.
Join Laura Frederick, Emily Stedman, and Brian Chang in this webinar on August 25, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they work through the indemnification procedures that decide who controls the defense and who pays for the settlement.
Join Laura Frederick, Marybeth Stramaglia, and Lindsey Sands in this webinar on August 20, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they explore the termination and wind-down terms that decide how cleanly a deal ends.
Join Laura Frederick, Hebe Doneski, and Matt Kohel in this webinar on August 19, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they cover how to draft the commercial and data handling terms in MCP agreements.
Join Laura Frederick, Kimberly Pack, and Arohi Kashyap in this webinar on August 11, 2026 at 12 pm ET to find where one set of contract language satisfies multiple state privacy laws, and where it can't.
This week: what goes into vendors agreeing to concessions on small contracts, a lesson on reviewing AI incident response clauses, upcoming free CLE webinars, a contract meme, and contract tips
Just because it's a smaller contract risk or value does not automatically mean there will be no concessions. For both vendors and customers, successfully navigating small-deal negotiations depends on how you ask.
Join Laura Frederick, Joanna Valencia, and Anya Ryjkova in this webinar on August 26, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they cover which AI bias terms hold up and which vendors strike.
This week: why I choose not to share model provisions, a lesson on how to draft indemnification claims and exclusions, upcoming free CLE webinars, insights into the University of Chicago 1L course changes, a contract meme, and four fresh contract tips.
Despite providing hundreds of hours of training programs and thousands of posts with contract advice over the past five years, I've never shared model versions of contract language. Here's why.
Tanya Avila and Chris Crook joined host Laura Frederick to share how they triaged contract work, chose their next hire, built usable playbooks, and set expectations when resources stayed tight.
This week: the case for framing contract risk in financial terms, a PDF and video lesson on drafting AI model training provisions, upcoming free CLE webinars, plus a contract meme cartoon, and tips.
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Framing legal risk in financial terms helps business teams understand it.
Laura Belmont and Kimberly Maney joined host Laura Frederick to redline high-risk AI provisions, covering human oversight, use case restrictions, EU AI Act duties, warranty scope, and information demands.
This week's lesson on AI contracts includes a downloadable PDF and 15-minute video to help you get better at drafting provisions on model training for AI products.
This week: getting stuck in negotiation mode when the situation requires something else, a PDF and video lesson on drafting input data definitions in AI contracts, and upcoming free CLE webinars.
Enabling the business means carrying risk, including knowing when a problem is a risk decision rather than a negotiation.
Krista Lynn and Blaine Prober joined host Laura Frederick to share how lean legal teams lead major deals, protect leverage, manage outside counsel, and contain concessions that stretch risk tolerance.
This week's lesson on AI contracts includes a downloadable PDF and 12-minute video to help you get better at drafting definitions for input data.
On Thursday, July 9, 2026, I'm going live to walk through with some of our ContractsCon speakers everything we built for ContractsCon 2026.
This week: the vendor-documentation trap in AI indemnities, negotiating AI product testing clauses, and upcoming free CLE webinars.
Indemnified claims that point to vendor documentation for an AI product that may not be well understood significantly extends your uncontrolled risks.
