by Tom Phillips | Feb 22, 2018 | Business Practices
Effective Agreements worked with a company, revising their Master Sales Contract template. The client readily admitted that the current template was a contract the vice president of business development had brought over from a company where he was previously employed....
by Tom Phillips | Feb 12, 2018 | Business Practices
An escalation procedure commits people on both sides of a contract to meet and attempt to resolve disputes without costly arbitration or litigation. If there is no procedure agreed to in the initial document, the parties may find it difficult to work out a process to...
by Tom Phillips | Jan 24, 2018 | Business Practices
The Concern A surprising number of people enter the phrase “Free Intellectual Property Agreement Template” into search engines. The thought of someone using so important an agreement acquired in this manner is a cause for concern. Someone searching for an intellectual...
by Tom Phillips | Jan 17, 2018 | Business Practices
One of my clients contacted me in a rather agitated state after I had not heard from him in some time. A party for whom he was performing services was not satisfied with the final work product and was seeking recompense. My client agreed that exiting the business...
by Tom Phillips | Jan 9, 2018 | Business Practices
Much of the work I perform for high tech enterprises deals with Statements of Work or Scopes of Work (there may be other names out there as well – I will call them SOWs.) The SOW can be a major stumbling block in a project if it is not properly written. One reason it...
