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In the expanded second edition of Practical Tips on How to Contract, commercial contracts attorney. entrepreneur, and social media thought leader Laura Frederick draws on her contract drafting and negotiating skills learned in over 25 years as a high-profile practicing lawyer in global law firms and companies like Tesla to offer real-world contract strategies to draft contracts and negotiate their terms.
The second edition is an essential desk book every lawyer and contract professional needs. It includes more than 320 contract tips of easy-to-understand and relatable negotiation and contracting advice that will give you what you need to know to be confident and excel in any business situation. It also includes some light-hearted lawyer humor cartoons to help drive home the points and add some fun while you learn.
Let’s face it. Contracts can be intimidating if you aren’t sure what to say and when in your drafting and negotiations. That’s why it is so critical get your guidance from somebody that has been there and done that, who worked for top law firms and companies managing the thousands of smaller deals and negotiating sophisticated billion-dollar deals.
Practical Tips on How to Contract is a valuable resource that you will consult, whenever you are new to contract negotiation or just need a little reassurance or insight from a trusted friend that’s been exactly where you are now many times before.
Why not start improving your contract skills and expertise today?
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Laura Frederick
Laura loves everything about contracts. And she loves helping others learn about contracts so they discover the same kind of joy.
Laura spent the last 25+ years practicing law across the globe from San Francisco to Singapore. Learning the ropes at international firms such Morrison & Foerster turned into leading commercial deals at Fortune 500s like Tesla. In each role, she focused on learning the ins and outs herself and helping her clients and coworkers understand contract nuances. After working for others her whole career, in 2019 she went to work for herself. Now she is Managing Attorney at Laura Frederick Law, PLLC, a boutique law firm based in Austin, Texas.
In August 2020, Laura began sharing daily contract tips as part of a 30-day challenge of posting on LinkedIn — to immediate success. She started adding to each post a self-made funny cartoon that quickly became her trademark.
In early 2021, Laura launched How to Contract, a practical contract training platform.How to Contract has become the go-to solution for lawyers and professionals wanting real-world training on contracts.Thousands of lawyers and professionals from around the world have subscribed to the library of videos and training materials and attended the training program
How to Contract has added in-person events with the introduction of ContractsCon, an in-person and virtual training extravaganza. The first ContractsCon was in Miami, Florida in February 2023. Laura is planning multiple one-day local ContractsCon events in 2023 and the next international program in Las Vegas in January 2024.
