Professional Contract Drafting Course

Learn how to draft contracts accurately and professionally.

About the Course

Course Topics

1. Fundamentals of legal contract drafting and the stages of contract development.
2. The pre-contractual phase: information gathering and verification of parties and their authority.
3. Selecting the appropriate drafting strategy based on the nature of the contract and the position of each party.
4. Structuring the contract and drafting obligations, financial consideration, and payment mechanisms.
5. Professional drafting of essential and protective contract clauses.
6. Identifying, allocating, and addressing contractual risks through contract wording.
7. Detecting drafting flaws, loopholes, and inconsistencies, and re-engineering defective provisions.
8. Reviewing and analyzing contracts from the perspectives of both the drafter and the adversary prior to the emergence of a dispute.
9. Understanding the drafting characteristics of contracts most common in professional practice.
10. Practical applications and workshops on drafting and reviewing clauses and contracts using professional checklists.