How to Make Contracts the Right Tools for Your Business
Learn how to make contracts useful tools for your business. Our panel of speakers from Vermont Law & Graduate School explains how contracts are blueprints for working agreements between your business and your clients, contractors, vendors, and other entities. This includes:
- Contract elements
- When and why to put things in writing
- Setting customer expectations
- How contracts can protect your business when things go wrong
- Specific concerns for different industries
Our webinar presenters from Vermont Law and Graduate School include:
- Professor Oliver Goodenough
- Professor Nicole Killoran
- Danielle McLin, Student
- Brooke Catalano, Student
- Travis Rosenbluth, Student
The panelists use industry examples to bring elements of contracts to life for the following sectors:
Creative sector contracts
- Who is involved in contracts
- Who and how each party owns the rights to the work
- Expectations on payment and behavior during the timeframe of the contract
Health & wellness sector contracts
- Waiver for medical risks
- Consent to services, activities, and treatment
- Confidentiality
- Risks
- Service agreements
- Non-compete clauses
Services & consulting sector contracts
- Details to consider in contractors
- Scope of services
- Intellectual property
Construction sector contracts
- Laying out a scope of work and what fixed and flexible projects mean
- How will losses be resolved (or mitigated)
- How will payments be made
- How will services be valued, fixed price, time and material, etc.
More resources related to this topic:
- Slides from this presentation
- Glossary of terms used in the presentation
- VLGS webinar: Intellectual Property: Opportunities, Barriers & Challenges
This webinar is part of the Vermont Community Navigator Pilot Program administered by the Vermont Small Business Development Center with funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Find more information about Vermont Law & Graduate School’s services for qualifying small businesses at: vermontlaw.edu/cnpp.
Learn more about the Community Navigator Pilot Program at: vtsbdc.org/find-cnpp.