TL;DR: Getting good at contracts takes a lot of practice and effort. It goes faster if you have the right training. The Contract Mastery Program gives you 30+ hours of structured courses, three certifications, and a searchable library of 200+ hours of expert training, 500+ playbook strategies, and 400+ tips.
How to Contract is thrilled to share we’ve launched the new training offer, the Contract Mastery Program. Our goal is help lawyers and contract professionals build the judgment, confidence, and practical skill to do real contract work well. The Program pulls everything Laura teaches into one annual subscription.
Here is what it is, who it is for, and how it works.
The Problem We Are Trying to Solve
Building real contract skill takes years. Most people figure it out the hard way, picking up nuggets from senior lawyers, learning from the deals they happen to work on, and filling in the gaps with whatever they can find online. Some of that information is good. A lot of it is not. Most of it is not organized.
Laura Frederick approaches contract training differently. She believes talking at a high level about contracts isn’t going to make a different. Her approach? We should be structuring our training like you’d teach someone how to fix a car.
You’d never say “See that car? You need to fix it so it works right. Don’t fix it incorrectly. Now go.” Instead, she believes in focusing on the individual components, breaking each topic, subtopic and issue down into its part.
The other reason the analogy works is because it sets the right expectations about what you' need to put in to learn. No course or training program makes you a master mechanic. The right training, applied over time, gets you there years faster than figuring it out alone.
The Contract Mastery Program does the same thing for teaching lawyers and contract teams how to draft and negotiate contracts.
What You Get
Our Contract Mastery Program members get 12 months of access to three program components that work together.
Courses. 30+ hours of structured on-demand training on the provisions and concepts you work with every day. Laura Frederick spent years perfecting each of these courses, updating and improving them year after yera. The courses cover NDAs, IP and licensing, indemnification, limitations of liability, goods and services agreements, and more. The Program also includes 20+ hours of live training each year, where members can ask questions in real time.
Certifications. Three credentials members can earn by completing the relevant courses and passing module-based assessments. These include certifications in commercial contracts, indemnification provisions, and NDAs. Each one demonstrates real expertise to employers, clients, and your own team.
The Library. A collection of 200+ hours of expert training, 500+ playbook strategies, 400+ practical tips, and so much more, all searchable. Sherlock, our library’s AI search function, searches for just the right video, playbook entry, checklist, course module, or other resource to answer your question. There’s no hallucination because AI isn’t generating an answer. It’s highlighting what the sources say and sharing the citations for those sources with every response. Every result links back to the source so you know who said it and can dig deeper if you want.
One highlight of the Program is our extensive resources on AI contract drafting and negotiation. We a two-hour course created by Laura and 80+ hours of AI-specific training videos recorded since March 2025.
Who the Program Is For
The Program serves lawyers and contract professionals at three career stages.
People in the early years of learning contract. Our program offers fundamentals training if you are a few years into your career, transitioning from another practice area, or moving from outside counsel in a niche area to an in-house house general role. You know how to think like a lawyer or how legal rights are protected. What you need is the practical knowledge of how commercial contracts actually work.
Experienced lawyers with specific gaps. The Program also works for experienced lawyers and professionals who already know contracts. You know what you know well and where your gaps are. We have 100+ hours of niche topics available for you to study. You also get access to a comprehensive training topics that cover areas that you want to improve on. You’ll get focused training on specific provisions and the curated expertise of lawyers who have negotiated contracts you have not.
General counsel and legal leaders training their teams. You want your team to handle contract work with consistency and judgment. The Program gives them structured training, certifications they can earn, and a working library they can reference on the job. Group rates are available for 3+ members and offer different price points for access tiers that allow you to customize a program that’s just the right fit for your group.
Why a Subscription and Not a Course
Members get the most out of the Program when they treat it as ongoing professional development, not a one-time class. That is why the price is annual, not monthly. Building real contract skill is not a quick fix. It happens over months and years of running into provisions, looking up answers, applying what you learn, and slowly building the judgment that experienced lawyers carry around in their heads.
The Program meets you where you are and provides the knowledge and advice you need to know what to do. Your job builds the skill to do it well.
How to Join
The Contract Mastery Program is open now. You can find out more with our overview of the program. If you are training a team, email us at [email protected] for group pricing.
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