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Companies spend billions of dollars to associate their products or brand with celebrities, athletes, and sports franchises. This session will provide in-house counsel an opportunity to learn the critical components of sponsorship and endorsement agreements. It will cover the cornerstones — grant of rights, category exclusivity, use of marks, indemnification, term and termination, IP ownership, reps and warranties, delivery of elements, activation, and ambush marketing — as well as strategies for avoiding common negotiation pitfalls. The panel will discuss applicable sports and entertainment union coverage and rules that may affect your bottom line as well as frequent deal terms that may trip you up when engaging high-profile talent to endorse or advertise your brand or product.

Learn how results can be multiplied when you put together any combination of in-sourcing, unbundling, alternative legal service providers, process improvement, value-based fees and technology. Whether you're looking for solutions to improve client satisfaction and cost control in litigation, M&A or patent management, these Value Champions will share proven tactics you can use.

This is a sample engineering services contract.

This article discusses why negotiating software licensing agreements can be difficult and outlines how to maximize your chances for successfully negotiating some critical deal points.

This QuickCounsel reviews some options for structuring multinational software licences and considers key issues that vendors and customers need to address in the licence agreement.

This is a sample performance graph services contract.

Discuss provisions in cloud computing agreements that address sensitive issues, such as data ownership and protection, privacy and intellectual property. Obtain tips on negotiating liabilities and risks in cloud computing contracts — what provisions SaaS providers commonly include in agreements, provisions large customers typically request, which are negotiable and how to mitigate the impact of terms you cannot change.

These are sample intellectual property and government contracts training materials.

This excerpt from a commercials contract covers exclusivity and limitations of the Producer.

Have you ever received a surprise invoice from a software supplier issuing an audit that you mistakenly agreed 
to? If you haven’t, you will. In an effort
 to combat this growing trend, in-house counsel should modernize their software management processes, and negotiate the terms of any audit clause to protect both the business and the budget.