Drafting Professional and Personal Services Agreements

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COURSE INFO

  • Available Until 3/9/2021
  • Next Class Time 10:00 AM PT
  • Duration 60 min.
  • Format MP3 Download
  • Program Code 0118340
  • MCLE Credits 1 hour(s)


Course Price: $65.00
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Companies are increasingly focused on their “core competencies,” outsourcing all other functions—sales, bookkeeping, IT, customer and product support, warranty work—to professional service providers and their companies. Drafting agreements to capture this work is unlike drafting a conventional employment agreement. It requires a sophisticated understanding of the service, benchmarks for performance and ongoing reporting, the creation and use of highly confidential business information, and much more. The underlying agreement must carefully create the complex interactions of all of these elements for the client to get the benefit of its bargain. This program provides you with a practical guide to drafting services agreements in business.

• Drafting services agreements for “hard” and “soft” services
• Scope of services provided, modification of services, and relationship to fees
• Performance standards and timeliness of delivery of services
• Types of fee structures and common traps
• Ensuring ownership of key files, records, “know-how,” customer lists, and trade secrets
• Issues related to subcontracting, designation of agents, and assignment of the contract
• Conflicts of interest, limitation of liability, and indemnification

Speaker: Joel R. Buckberg is of counsel in Nashville office of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, where his practice focuses on corporate and asset transactions and operations, particularly in hospitality, franchising, and distribution. He also counsels clients on strategic planning, financing, mergers and acquisitions, system policy and practice development, regulatory compliance, and contract system drafting.