Name: Drafting Contracts: Best Practices & Pitfalls
Price: 119 CAD
Rating: 4.9 (32 reviews)

What You'll Learn

check_circleDraft clear and enforceable contractual clauses that reflect the parties' intentions.

check_circleAvoid ambiguity, conflicting provisions, and drafting inconsistencies.

check_circleUse boilerplate clauses strategically to protect client interests.

check_circleAnalyze dispute resolution and governing law clauses for procedural impact.

check_circleReview real-world litigation outcomes resulting from poor contract drafting.

About This Course

This course, "Drafting Contracts: Best Practices & Pitfalls," offers an essential guide to mastering contract drafting in Canadian legal practice. Precision in contract drafting is paramount for enforceability and risk reduction, ensuring clarity and avoiding ambiguity, unclear terms, and conflicts that commonly lead to disputes.

You will explore the fundamental principles guiding commercial contract drafting, including the typical structure and conventions under Canadian law, emphasizing the critical role of hierarchy in organizing contractual components like recitals, operative provisions, and schedules.

Key learning outcomes include:

Understanding the crucial role of consistent use of defined terms to prevent ambiguity across multiple documents and schedules.
Mastering effective strategies for structuring obligations and conditions with clarity, using precise language such as "must" or "shall."
Identifying and including all essential contract terms—from parties and scope to pricing, intellectual property, confidentiality, and dispute resolution mechanisms—to avoid critical omissions.
Addressing the significance of explicitly outlining modification, renewal, and performance triggers, and clarifying the status and priority of attachments and schedules.
Navigating common pitfalls in drafting termination and risk allocation clauses, distinguishing between termination for cause and convenience, and defining material breach and cure periods.
Aligning termination provisions with dispute resolution and liability clauses to prevent inconsistencies and mitigate litigation risks.
Examining common errors in drafting indemnity and limitation of liability clauses, ensuring they align with insurance coverage and commercial expectations, and appreciating the importance of carefully carving out exceptions.
Gaining insights into selecting appropriate governing law, jurisdiction, and dispute resolution mechanisms (arbitration, mediation, litigation) to ensure enforceability and practical convenience.
Recognizing typical sources of ambiguity and redundancy in contract drafting and their impact on litigation outcomes, with a focus on emerging trends in Canadian courts regarding drafting quality.

By the end of this course, you will possess the skills and knowledge to draft robust, enforceable contracts that minimize disputes and align with best practices in Canadian commercial law.

Target Audience:

• Contract lawyers and legal counsel
• In-house legal teams
• Paralegals and junior associates
• Contract managers and legal operations professionals
• Law students and articling clerks specializing in transactional law

Your Instructor

Nnubia Ogbuefi

Lawyer

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Licensed to practice law in Ontario, Canada, I’m a technology-savvy lawyer with 5+ years advising on contracts, privacy issues, and technology-related matters. I’ve worked with several clients, including individuals, startups, and scale-ups across North America, the UK, Australia, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. From redlining complex agreements to steering compliance with GDPR, PIPEDA, CCPA, HIPAA, and PDPA, I am a goal-oriented collaborator and facilitator with deep research expertise. I translate risk into clear, actionable strategies, with a record of achieving cross-border wins. In addition to my practice, I hold an LLB, B.L., and an LLM in Law & Technology.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

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