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Boiled Up in "Boilerplate" Contract Provisions: Creating Careful Contracts
In this one-hour CLE webinar, LawPay's Director of Education, Claude Ducloux, will explore the dangers of using “my old form” for standard contract provisions as well as numerous ethical situations and implications of negligent drafting. This presentation will cover the following:
- Defining boilerplate, examples, and usage;
- Strategies for ensuring that both the lawyer and client understand the effects;
- The necessity for consideration if additional provisions expand duties;
- The danger of choice of law provisions;
- Torts under choice of law provisions;
- Use of waivers and additional dispute resolution requirements like arbitration;
- Defining damages (consequential and otherwise), profits, and indemnity;
- Ruined by severability clause of merger clauses to change the agreement;
- Ethical rules and specific ethical situations related to contracts;
- Strategies to protect yourself and final advice; and
- Best practices for contract provisions.
Claude Ducloux, Director of Education, Lawpay
Attorney at Law, Board Certified in Civil Trial and Appellate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; LawPay’s Director of Education, Ethics, and State Compliance.
Claude E. Ducloux is an attorney licensed in Texas, Colorado, and California who speaks nationally on legal ethics, law office management, and trial-related topics. In 2011, he won the highest statewide award from the State Bar of Texas for lifetime contribution to CLE and has been invited to speak in more than 500 programs since January 1, 2016. Claude has served as course director and creator of numerous CLE institutes and advanced courses.
Mr. Ducloux has a long legacy of bar service, including being President of the Austin Bar Association, and serving as Chair of almost every major bar-related entity, as well as the Texas Bar Foundation. He is a board-certified civil trial and appellate attorney in Texas.
