When you're running a small legal department, the biggest deals your company does land on your desk personally. There's no deal team to hand them to, no senior associate to run point while you supervise. You're setting the strategy, sitting across from the counterparty's senior counsel, and making the call on whether terms you don't love are still worth signing, all while handling everything else the company needs from legal that week. Most of the difficulty isn't in the contract language itself. The harder questions are about your own involvement, like when a deal needs you in the room, when stepping in just slows your team down, and how to lead on something company-defining without the resources a bigger department would have.
In this webinar, Laura Frederick and Krista Lynn will talk through how in-house counsel at small legal departments can lead on major contracts and deals without the staffing a larger team provides. They'll cover how to decide when to engage personally and when to let your team run, how to set negotiation strategy on the deals that shape a company's direction, and how to handle the moment when the business is pushing to close on terms that aren't good. Attendees will come away with practical ways to think about their own involvement, manage counterparty relationships from a smaller seat, and make decisions on deals that stretch past their company's usual risk tolerance.
*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.
We do not determine individual eligibility. Please check your state bar for specific compliance rules.
