Our founder and president Ken Adams offers through West LegalEdcenter the following Koncision-branded webcasts. Each webcast is available for download on demand. Individuals can register and pay with a credit card. If five or more people in your organization would like to watch a webcast as a group, discounts are available; please email the sales department of West LegalEdcenter to find out more. Contact them too if you’d like to find out about subscribing to West LegalEdcenter—your subscription would include these webcasts.
Drafting Clearer Contracts
The first five of this series of seven one-hour webcasts explore topics discussed in his book A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting and consist of annotated PowerPoint presentations plus crystal-clear audio. The sixth and seventh webcasts consist of conversations with others, with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation. The sixth is on the benefits of clarity and how to effect change; the seventh, which is free of charge, is on contract automation. Here’s the complete list, with links to the relevant West LegalEdcenter page:
- The Front and Back of the Contract
- Categories of Contract Language
- Defined Terms; Ambiguity
- Select Words and Phrases
- Drafting as Writing; Layout and Typography
- The Benefits of Clarity; Effecting Change
- Automating the Contract Process
The Structure of M&A Contracts
A clear understanding of how the parts of a mergers-and-acquisitions contract fit together is essential for anyone involved in M&A transactions. This webcast presents an overview based on the essential guide to this subject—Ken Adams’s groundbreaking book The Structure of M&A Contracts. (For more about this book, go here.) The speakers are Ken Adams and Steven Davidoff, the New York Times’s “Deal Professor.”
This webcast explores the connections between representations, obligations, conditions, indemnification provisions, and termination provisions. Topics covered include how to introduce representations, how to word the bringdown condition, the implications of “sandbagging,” and many others.
This webcast would be valuable to junior lawyers seeking a rigorous introduction to the subject and senior lawyers who wish to keep abreast of cutting-edge thinking. Registrants will receive, at no extra charge, a copy of The Structure of M&A Contracts.
Click here to go to the West LegalEdcenter page for this webcast.
Drafting and Reviewing Confidentiality Agreements
Confidentiality agreements play an essential but frustrating role in the transactional world. Essential because protecting one’s trade secrets and other confidential information plays an increasingly important role in business. Frustrating because lawyers and contract-management personnel spend an inordinate amount of time drafting and reviewing confidentiality agreements and wrestling with the subtle and awkward issues they often raise.
This program presents a practical, structured, and up-to-date overview of key topics relating to different kinds of confidentiality agreements. The speakers are Ken Adams, our president; Chris Lemens, general counsel of General Information Services, Inc.; and Glenn West, a partner at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Click here to go to the West LegalEdcenter page for this webcast. For some background, see this blog post.
