Running a small legal department means making decisions that, at a larger company, would be spread across committees and dedicated teams. There's often no risk committee to set the company's appetite for contract risk, no playbook team to decide which terms hold the line, and no chief commercial officer to define who can sign what. When you're the whole legal function, or close to it, those calls land on you. And they tend to land while the business is moving faster than you can build the structure to handle them.
In this webinar, Laura Frederick and Stephanie Woodworth will talk through how lawyers in small departments can set contract risk policy and make these structural calls without the support a larger team would have. They'll cover how to work out your company's risk tolerance on your own, how to decide which terms are genuinely non-negotiable, and how to set signing authority that the business will actually follow. They'll also get into setting policy on AI vendor use when adoption is outrunning legal's ability to write the rules, and the harder judgment call of when to walk away from a deal when you're the only person in the room raising the concern.
*Live CLE Credit Information:
How to Contract will apply for 1.25 hours of General CLE credit in CA, PA, and TX.
We will provide details to attendees on how to request a certificate of attendance. These certificates are provided after an attendee submits a completed credit request form (including the CLE code words shared live) within 14 days of the live webinar. Late submissions are not accepted.
Lawyers in these other jurisdictions who attend live may be eligible for credit through reciprocity, self-application, or reporting: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CT, CO, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IN, IL, KY, LA, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, MD, ME, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OK, OR, RI, SC, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY. These programs may also be eligible for Canadian CPD credit in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec.
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