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
8:30 am Drafting Toolbox: Simple Style Tips and Best Practices for Drafting Complex Contracts
- 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.
Julijana Englander, David M. Gorwitz
9:20 am Due Diligence: Yours & Theirs
- 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
Erin R. Ogden
10:10 am Break
10:25 am Municipal Government Contracts
- Review the bid and RFP process
- Awarding bids
- How to prevent and resolve common contract disputes
Eric J. Larson
11:15 am Learning Lessons
- Litigators see where it goes bad. What do they see again and again and it makes them cringe?
Seep Paliwal, Sam Wayne
12:05 pm Program Concludes
- 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
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