Learning Business Contracts for Beginners
What you'll learn
- Develop the rock-solid, plain-English contracts you need to protect your organization and personal assets.
- Understand common legal terms and weed through the complicated legalese of contracts you're likely to see in the course of running your business.
- Understand what to look for and how to negotiate key conditions for those times when you're asked to sign someone else’s contract.
- Sleep better at night knowing that you’ve minimized your risk and protected yourself.
Requirements
- Nothing-- this is an introductory course to business contracts.
Description
Contracts are the lifeblood of most businesses. Unfortunately, too many people sign them without really understanding what they mean.
Taught by a business attorney nationally recognized as one of the best in the country, this course will teach you everything you need to know to minimize your risk, protect your company and create win-win situations when drafting, negotiating, and signing business contracts. You will learn the basics of business contracts including:
- How to decode and understand often confusing legal terms.
- How to personally craft your own contract
- What to look for and negotiate when signing the other guy’s contract.
This is the course that you need to take in order to make sure that you and your company are protected, that you get what you want, and that you can sleep at night without anxiety about your contract.
Who this course is for:
- This course is designed for business owners, decision makers, key personnel and anyone involved in contract review in industry who wants to review, negotiate, draft, and sign business contracts with confidence.
Course content
- Preview12:57
- 15:46Module 2: The 5 terms all of your contracts must have
- Preview02:38
Instructor
![Eliot Wagonheim](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 1,169 Reviews
- 5,285 Students
- 1 Course
I serve as general counsel to small to mid-sized businesses in a wide array of industries in both litigation and corporate matters. My clients range from five person shops to some of the most successful and recognized companies in the nation.
Over the course of my career, I have served as buyer’s counsel as well as seller’s counsel in transactions ranging from $50,000 to $50,000,000. From a litigation perspective, I have both won and successfully defended cases ranging from multi-million dollar, bet-your-company cases to smaller, District Court actions.
In addition to working with clients, I am a frequent public speaker and have served as an adjunct professor teaching Business Law for the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business MBA Program.