LIVE ZOOM: Know Before You Sign on the Dotted Line: Reading & Negotiating Business Contracts
Tuesday, April 1, 2025: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
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New and growing businesses must enter into a variety of contracts, with landlords, suppliers, and clients, to name a few. Learn how to read common “boilerplate” contractual language and negotiate contractual terms to your advantage.
Class covers:
- Contract law basics
- Essential terms of a commercial lease: what is negotiable and what is non-negotiable
- Essential terms of a contract for goods or services
- “Typical” contracts negotiated by business people
- Caveat emptor: how to avoid problematic contracts
Presented by Gina Pak:
Gina Pak is the COO and Co-founder of Lawgood (https://lawgood.io), a legal tech company that is helping business owners with their everyday legal contracts through a combination of real lawyers and artificial intelligence. Prior to Lawgood, Gina was as a corporate lawyer at large firms in New York and Los Angeles working with Fortune 500 companies. She was also a law professor at Peking University. Gina graduated from Columbia Law School.
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.
