Complex Commercial Contracts 2025

  • OnDemand seminar
  • Contract Law
Up to 4.0 Credit Hours
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Complex Commercial Contracts 2025

Endorsed by the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin

A comprehensive contracts course

Master the art of drafting contracts that deliver results. Complex Commercial Contracts can help you create agreements that give your clients an edge in negotiations, safeguard intellectual property, and foster lasting business relationships.

Optimize your skills

When contracts get complicated, precision matters. Discover how strategic writing choices can turn potential roadblocks into opportunities for success. You’ll receive a collection of essential drafting style tips, focusing on:

  • Agreement and performance
  • Duties and prohibitions
  • Discretion, declaration, and intention
  • Policy and recommendation
8:30 am
Drafting Toolbox: Simple Style Tips and Best Practices for Drafting Complex Contracts

Julijana Englander, David M. Gorwitz

  • Discover techniques to achieve clarity and avoid ambiguity in drafting
  • Review categories of language use in contracts and how to best convey obligation, discretion, and prohibition.
  • Pick up drafting style tips and best practices including simple ways eliminate confusion with numbers, dates, deadlines and more.
9:20 am
Due Diligence: Yours & Theirs

Erin R. Ogden

  • What you need to ask and how to ask
  • What you need to do to ensure your client can get the information they need and what choices they have once they know
10:10 am
Break
10:25 am
Municipal Government Contracts

Eric J. Larson

  • Review the bid and RFP process
  • Awarding bids
  • How to prevent and resolve common contract disputes
11:15 am
Learning Lessons

Seep Paliwal, Sam Wayne

  • Litigators see where it goes bad. What do they see again and again and it makes them cringe?
12:05 pm
Program Concludes

Program Chair

Erin R. Ogden
Ogden Glazer + Schaefer · Madison

Presenters

Julijana Englander
Neider & Boucher, S.C. · Madison
David M. Gorwitz
Neider & Boucher, S.C. · Madison
Eric J. Larson
Municipal Law & Litigation Group, S.C. · Waukesha
Seep Paliwal
Stafford Rosenbaum LLP · Madison
Sam Wayne
Wayne Law S.C. · Madison

  • Understand the principles governing a variety of corporate agreements
  • Pick up style tips and best practices for drafting complex contracts
  • Learn how to conduct a due diligence inquiry before signing
  • Discover strategies for handling municipal government contracts
  • Gain perspective from litigators who’ve seen their share of cringe-worthy contracts
  • Business lawyers
  • Intellectual property lawyers
  • In-house counsel
  • Health lawyers
  • Government lawyers

Book Bonus!

Contract Law in Wisconsin
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