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Negotiating AI training language before mapping how the vendor's AI works may protect against a risk that does not exist.
Jun 18, 2026
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Join Laura Frederick, Laura Belmont, and Kimberly Maney in this webinar on July 30, 2026 at 12 pm ET to learn how in-house counsel can manage high-risk AI use cases under the EU AI Act.
Jun 17, 2026
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Join Laura Frederick and Pablo Restrepo in this webinar on July 28, 2026 at 12 pm ET to learn how interest-based negotiation gets better contract outcomes than trading positions back and forth.
Join Laura Frederick and Akiva Miller in this webinar on July 15, 2026 at 12 pm ET for a practical look at drafting open source and third-party component provisions in SaaS contracts.
Jun 16, 2026
Join Laura Frederick and Stephanie Woodworth in this webinar on July 14, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they discuss setting contract risk policy and signing authority when you're the whole legal function.
Watch the 12-minute video and read the strategy used by two sophisticated lawyers to review an AI-generated incident response clause. Here is what they said was wrong with it and what they would do about it.
Jun 15, 2026
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Join Laura Frederick, Patti Barnard, and Tiffany Bui LeTourneau in this webinar on July 29, 2026 at 12 pm ET for a practical look at SaaS contracts and how the key pieces fit together.
Jun 12, 2026
Join Laura Frederick, Shannon Yavorsky, and Carly Penner in this webinar on July 22, 2026 at 12 pm ET for a practical guide to drafting confidentiality terms that fit how AI tools handle data.
Join Laura Frederick, Doris Payer, and Robby Reggers in this webinar on July 21, 2026 at 12 pm ET for a look at how EU contracting differs from US practice and which drafting habits to drop.
Jun 11, 2026
Join Laura Frederick and Amy Grubb in this webinar on July 16, 2026 at 12 pm ET for a practical look at how to build a contract playbook your in-house team will actually use.
Our newsletter this week includes my personal wake-up call for learning AI tools even if we'll replace them, plus links to register for next week's contracting webinars, info about our membership library, a meme, and a handful of contract tips.
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We are not just learning a tool for the sake of the tool. We are learning it to prepare for what is to come.
Learn what's wrong with including fast deadlines for incident notices. Also check out upcoming free CLE webinars, updates on ContractsCon 2026, my meme of the week, and some recent contract tips and cartoons.
Jun 4, 2026
Getting notice of a security incident before your vendor knows the scope may start your regulatory clock before you have the answers you need.
Join Laura Frederick, Fred Wilf, and Brian Chang on June 23, 2026 at 12 pm ET as they walk through how patent licensing and infringement issues play out in digital product contracts.
Jun 2, 2026
Getting your manager to approve paying for your ticket and travel to ContractsCon 2026 just got a lot easier.
May 30, 2026
Our newsletter this week includes how we need to change our drafting to account for agentic AI, links to register for our free CLE webinars, updates on ContractsCon 2026, my meme of the week, an article on how I draft NDAs for high-risk situations, and some contract tips.
May 28, 2026
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.
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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.
Not every NDA needs to include these enhanced protections, but I'm ready to make some or all of these edits when they do.
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.
We spent the last year writing contracts for AI systems that act on our directions. We may need to return to those templates and playbooks for the agentic AI reality ahead.
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.
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.
