2nd Annual Skills Webcast
What You Will Learn
Learn How To Draft Effective Indemnification Provisions That Protect Your Clients!
Document drafting can be as important to the long-term success of a deal as the negotiation of the deal itself. ALI-ABA's Real World Document Drafting ® video webcast series examines the legal principles, skills, and underlying business principles related to negotiating and drafting a broad range of contracts. Taught by Marvin Garfinkel, a practitioner with extensive transactional practice and teaching experience, these unique webcasts will show you how to draft precise legal documents that not only articulate the terms of the deal, but also foster business relationships and reduce the risk of future litigation.
This webcast, a timely update of the third in this special series for transactional lawyers, Indemnification Provisions in Contracts and Other Documents, explores the issue of indemnification and other hold harmless provisions which are often included in a variety of documents including agreements for sale, leases, merger and acquisition agreements, employment agreements, license and product distribution agreements, securities and banking industry documents, and construction-related documents. Although indemnification provisions are standard language in many contracts, these provisions are not as boilerplate as they may seem. Particularly in the current economic climate, you must be knowledgeable on the complexities of these terms. This webcast provides in-depth analysis of the language commonly used in these provisions, explores how they have been interpreted by trial courts in various jurisdictions, offers concrete and practical drafting strategies, and, most importantly, shows you how to use them to protect your client’s interests. Topics include:
Comparing common law, implied, and contractual provisions
Drafting indemnification provisions
Analyzing common indemnification provision terms
Identifying the parties
Dealing with enforcement and procedural issues
Handling claim and statutory limitations
and much, much more!
Attend this 2nd Annual webcast and gain practical insights for using indemnification provisions and shows you how to avoid the problem areas that can cause subsequent disputes.
Registrants will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance and/or during the program for discussion by the faculty.
Planning Chair
Marvin Garfinkel, of Philadelphia, is an experienced transactional lawyer, who has lectured and chaired courses for ALI-ABA and numerous other organizations. His areas of expertise include real estate law, including financing, defaults and workouts, common interest properties (condominiums, home owner associations, etc.), shopping center and other commercial development and commercial leasing, and business transactions. His intellectual property subspecialties include distribution and licensing relationships and trademarks.
Mr. Garfinkel's extensive writings have been published in legal journals and trade publications. He has advised and served on the editorial boards of a number of legal publications, statutory drafting commissions, and projects, as well as on several Uniform Law drafting and study committees, including those involved in drafting various articles of the UCC. He was an Adviser on several American Law Institute Property Law Restatements. Mr. Garfinkel is the author of the recently published book, Real World Document Drafting: A Dispute-Avoidance Approach (ALI-ABA 2008). For more information about Mr. Garfinkel, visit his website at www.realworlddocs.com.
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 1.5; total 50-minute hours: 1.8.
Here's what registrants have said about this course:
"Excellent course! Mr. Garfinkel is extremely knowledgeable. He made a dry subject interesting."
"I have been drafting contracts for over 15 years without the benefit of a course like yours. A course like yours would have saved me a lot of pain along the way."
"Practical and interesting. It should be a required course for all novice commercial lawyers (and for many experienced lawyers, too)."
Times
Eastern 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Central 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Mountain 11 am – 11:30 am
Pacific 9 am – 10:30 am
Alaska 8 am - 9:30 am
Hawaii 6 am – 7:30 am
