Every commercial transaction carries risk: your organization can manage risk by contractually determining the nature, content, and consequences of both yours and the other party’s actions and omissions. Contracts give rise to a range of liabilities by parties assuming rights, responsibilities, duties, and obligations, but which can be managed through contractual mechanisms. This highly interactive Managing Contractual Liabilities training course considers how your organization can identify and manage key contractual risks and liabilities – what are they, what do they mean, what are the consequences, who takes the risk, and who pays? It focuses on how best to deal with key contractual liability issues to minimize your potential exposure to both the financial consequences and damage to your reputation
There is a misconception that legal writing and legal drafting are the same but there is a substantial difference between the two. While legal writing typically deals with persuasive documents such as court briefs and legal letters, legal drafting involves creating documents such as contracts. They are both equally important in legal practice. Legal writing is an important skill needed in every practice area of law. Words are used to advocate, inform, persuade, and instruct. Are you giving the right impression? Are your clients receiving the right message? This course focuses on clear legal writing for a global audience. Effective communication with English speaking lawyers is about more than simply words. It entails understanding the unique way these speakers think and approach the legal, political, and business world.
This course focuses on practical solutions for today’s construction problems. Actual case examples are discussed, explaining contract performance, how to resolve construction disputes, prepare for a litigation case, and the bidding process. The course also covers legal issues, from contract formation to the final payment, and is designed to assist construction professionals and their lawyers in day-to-day construction activities. The emphasis is on using the civil law code as the legal framework of the contract. This course provides the construction professional with a detailed understanding of scheduling project activities, along with identifying the critical activities and critical path. It also covers resource management, resource leveling, and allocation as essential elements in controlling project costs and establishing the resources needed. In addition, it provides a basis for the many areas of estimating that construction professionals may face. Other methods of cost control, such as value engineering and earned value, will also be discussed. The course systematically covers the subjects vital to training competent contract and field administrators to manage time, cost, documentation, and disputes. It focuses on the legal, technical, and personal responsibilities involved in observation, supervision, and coordination of on-site construction. It increases knowledge of construction practices and control techniques and develops skills in management, contract administration, decision-making, and, finally, contract close-out – all essential in administering the contract. In this course, you will analyze the issues when a dispute arises during construction, examine its time and cost impacts on a project, and learn how to put in place more cost-effective procedures to resolve such disputes amicably by the parties before the project close-out. You also learn how to deal with contract claims, prepare and negotiate a settlement, and produce a counterclaim if needed. You will build your negotiation and mediation skills, learn how to prepare for and proceed with arbitration, and how to deal with litigation.
This highly interactive Effective Contractor Management training seminar will ensure that delegates understand how contractor management will fit in the Asset Management context - how to select the right contractor and contract type which suits your sourcing strategy and how to manage and monitor the results. Further, topics such as risk management, safety-health-environment aspects, partnerships, negotiating, people management (winning the hearts of the people), and applying contracts in a complex project environment (Turnkey contracts, Public-Private Partnerships PPP) will be considered in this Contracts Management training seminar. Delegates will have the opportunity to discuss the existing contracts used in the organization. Through a combination of formal lectures and group work, delegates will leave the training course with the tools to make contracts and contract management highly effective.
This Commercial and Business Contracts training seminar will provide participants a comprehensive understanding of procedures and practice related to the risks inherent in the formation and management of contracts. Through analysis of real-life examples, this Contract Management training program demonstrates how to manage contract risk effectively and to ensure contract negotiations and performance occurs quickly and efficiently. Contracts are valuable and useful tools for companies to maximize value for businesses and minimize the risk of loss or things going wrong. Businesses cannot continue to focus on pricing and key commercial terms alone. Contracts are vitally important for any business. Understanding and managing contract risk is critical for companies and senior employees. The business and competitive advantages of managing contracts effectively produce significant benefits and a failure to fully understand risk related items in a contract can result in lost opportunities and costly disputes.
The Contract is at the core of all commercial transactions and contract management is a core competency of all successful organizations. The best organizations in the world understand the benefits of increased profits and higher productivity resulting from mastering best practices in the important phases of contract management.
Contracts establish the responsibilities and rights of the parties. This highly interactive program will provide a practical hands-on approach to the effective management of contracts and offer techniques and contract strategies to assist this process. It will also assist in establishing an international risk management strategy regarding contracts and develop good business practices to take advantage of opportunities, enhance efficiency, and increase profitability.
There is a misconception that legal writing and legal drafting are the same but there is a substantial difference between the two. While legal writing typically deals with persuasive documents such as court briefs and legal letters, legal drafting involves creating documents such as contracts. They are both equally important in legal practice. Legal writing is an important skill needed in every practice area of law. Words are used to advocate, inform, persuade, and instruct. Are you giving the right impression? Are your clients receiving the right message? This course focuses on clear legal writing for a global audience. Effective communication with English speaking lawyers is about more than simply words. It entails understanding the unique way these speakers think and approach the legal, political, and business world.
This course is designed for lawyers who are looking to take on the role of General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer in an organization. the course will cover key legal concepts and skills, including corporate governance, regulatory compliance, contract law, litigation management, and ethics.