Understanding and drafting contracts: what constitutes an obligation and where there is wiggle room

Which level is targeted at the end of the training course?

Intermediate

How long does the training course last?

3,25 hours(s)

In which language(s) is the training course taught?

When will the next session take place?

Who is organising this training course?

Throughout the year, the Paperjam Club offers various workshops in the following areas: Communication, Marketing & Sales, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Human Resources, Management & Leadership, Personal Productivity, Strategy & Operations.

What are the aims or the skills being targeted?

to develop a contractual risk based approach for legal practitioner
to identify pre closing checks
to identify and use all contractual tools for negotiating a contract

What does the training course cover?

The negotiation, drafting or simple analysis of contracts requires adopting certain reflexes to limit unfortunate consequences when implementing the mutual obligations of the parties.In addition to reviewing these systematic and fundamental aspects, we explore how contract law offers the parties many options which allow their mutual obligations to be interpreted strictly or broadly. This workshop will enable you to understand how contract interpretation works and acquire reflexes to avoid the factual and legal pitfalls when dealing with contracts by presenting a broad range of options for contract negotiation and determination of the obligations under your contracts.Thisworkshopwill develop the followingthemes:

1.Approaching contracts

Priorverifications
Parties’identity
Capacityto contract
Financialresources
Pre-contractual documents
Confidentiality agreements
Guidelines establishing the relationship between the parties

2. TheNegociationPhase

Anticipatingblocking and non-blockingissues
Anticipatingways out ofacrisis

3. DraftingContracts

Identifyingobjectives
Identifyingessentialcontractual clauses
Basic agreement and guarantees
Contract duration
Clauses specific to property transactions
Liability clauses
Standard clauses and dispute resolution
Adjusting contractualcontent according to the needs of the parties

Expert: Renaud Le Squeren, DSM Avocat à la cour

What other information is useful to know?

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