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Fred Wilf and Brian Chang joined host Laura Frederick to unpack how patent licensing, ownership, sublicensing, indemnification, and liability caps play out in digital product and SaaS contracts.
Jun 2, 2026
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Olga V. Mack and Krista Russell joined host Laura Frederick to unpack how lawyers can diagnose where leverage actually lives, design contracts around operational reality instead of theoretical protections, and build negotiating power over the life of a relationship.
May 28, 2026
David Sclar and Laura Belmont joined host Laura Frederick to break down input, output, and system data definitions in AI contracts, where vague drafting hides risk, and how providers and customers can both push these terms toward something that holds up.
Heather Moulder and Shaun Sethna joined host Laura Frederick to unpack why burnout hits legal teams so hard, how to tell it apart from ordinary stress, what actually helps you recover, and the workplace habits that keep it from taking hold.
Shannon Yavorsky of Orrick and Mike Dockery of Marveri joined host Laura Frederick to break down the IP issues hiding in AI input, output, and grant back provisions, why ownership labels rarely mean what they appear to, and where license scope actually decides who controls the value.
4 min read
Matt Margolis of Margolis PLLC and Heather Stevenson of Red Cell Partners join host Laura Frederick to break down how in-house teams find the right fractional general counsel, structure the engagement, build trust with the business, and manage the budget.
Natalie Kim and Kevin Keller join host Laura Frederick to show how lawyers can build contract tools, run a first-pass review, generate playbooks, and keep client data private.
Arohi Kashyap and Kay Lee joined host Laura Frederick to discuss how subcontractors, usage-based pricing, joint development, and reseller chains break the standard liability cap and how to redraft each.
Jennifer Zador and Sterling Miller join host Laura Frederick to share how in-house lawyers build credibility, project confidence in unfamiliar areas, handle hard conversations, and rebuild broken trust.
May 27, 2026
Natalie Kim guest hosted a How to Contract webinar with Danish Butt and Colin Levy to talk about how agentic AI is reshaping what lawyers spend their time on, where governance gaps are opening, and how in-house teams can build and oversee agents without losing control.
David Cohen, founder of Tech Attorney Cohort, joined host Laura Frederick for a mini course on drafting indemnification and limits of liability in SaaS agreements, covering IP infringement, security events, first party indemnities, and how to set liability caps that actually fit the risk.
Mariette Clardy-Davis hosts Melissa Vierling, Kimberley Odums, and Andrea Peters for a working session on creating, drafting, and operationalizing AI use policies, with practical guidance on stakeholders, six pillars, training, leadership buy-in, and keeping a policy alive in a fast-moving environment.
Kate Aishton and Matthew Kohel joined host Laura Frederick to break down three AI data use provisions, from service delivery to model training to secondary use and benchmarking.
May 26, 2026
Alexandra Sepulveda and Bensu Aydin joined host Nate Kostelnik to share how in-house lawyers evaluate AI contract tools, run useful pilots, vet vendor claims, and keep judgment in the loop.
Litigator Maria Amelia Calaf and General Counsel Joanna Valencia joined host Laura Frederick to explain why performance documents decide disputes and how to draft a notice of default that holds.
Olga Mack and John Pavolotsky joined host Laura Frederick to break down how AI agent provisions differ from traditional software terms and how to pressure test AI slop language.
Laura Frederick, Valerie Madamba, and Amanda Haverstick break down how in-house lawyers can structure their thinking, write for how people actually read, present for decisions, and hold a high-stakes room.
Carolyn Elefant and Marc Hoag joined host Laura Frederick to work through how the ABA Model Rules on competence, confidentiality, supervision, communication, and privilege apply when lawyers use AI tools.
Naz Scott and Brad Jacob joined Laura Frederick to share how lawyers mapped decision makers, read deal-specific risk tolerance, framed risk for non-lawyers, mediated disagreements, and escalated to move deals.
Jonathan Savar and Lindsay Sands joined host Laura Frederick to unpack how negligence, gross negligence, willful misconduct, and fraud function inside indemnification provisions and where vendors and customers should fight.
Laura Frederick, Olga Mack of TermScout, and Bradley Dlatt of Lathrop GPM unpacked why insurance provisions quietly break and what to fix in our drafting before a claim lands.
Shannon Yavorsky and Matthew Hitchcock joined Laura Frederick to explain why SaaS-era data language fails in AI contracts, where deletion standards break down, and how survival terms get missed.
Jarrett Green and Krista Lynn joined host Laura Frederick to share how lawyers can manage triggers, recharge during a chaotic day, reframe what they cannot control, and beat procrastination.
Marybeth Stramaglia and Akiva Miller joined host Laura Frederick to break down how to draft statements of work that hold up, covering scope, pricing, assumptions, and enforceable schedules.
Shannon Yavorsky and Arohi Kashyap joined host Laura Frederick to walk through how AI products break standard DPAs and how to rewrite personal data, data subject category, and subprocessor clauses.
