Know how to read contract clauses and fully recognize the risks being taken on.
Almost every contract dispute ends up being controlled by the contract terms and conditions. Too often business women and business men sign the contract without fully understanding the agreement they have become bound to. For many, contracts read as if they were a foreign language. Learn how to translate the often convoluted terms of a contract and if there is a problem hidden within a clause, how to deal with that problematic clause. Often, businesses enter into contracts without knowing how to read the clauses and fully recognize the risks they have taken on. The benefit of this information is that you will be able to quickly recognize risky clauses, better understand the risks those clauses create and how to reduce or eliminate those risks before you sign the contract. You will also learn which phrases aggravate that risk and how you can minimize the risk where you have already signed a bad contract.
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Agenda
What Should Be in Your Contract and What Should Not Be There?
What Clauses Get Contractors and Owners in Trouble?
Incorporations by Reference:
- Industry Standards, General Conditions, Prime Contact, the Bid and More
Why the First Few Paragraphs of the Contract Are so Important
Key Clauses, Including Review of Plans and Specifications, Indemnity, Insurance, Warranty, Payment Requirements, Terminations, Order of Precedence and Much More
Key Phrases That Warn You of Danger, Such as Sole Discretion
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OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on April 30, 2019.
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- CA MCLE 1.5
- Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
- WA CLE 1.5
- This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
To earn each credit Lorman offers through the OnDemand learning platform, you need to watch 100% of the program. Also, for certain credits you will need to fulfill additional requirements which will be displayed on the "credits" tab when viewing the course.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty

Larry P. Lubka
Lubka & White LLP
- Partner at Lubka & White LLP
- More than 30 years of experience in complex contracts, including commercial, UCC, state and local, and federal government contracts
- Given several hundred seminars on construction law across the country
- Selected as a Best Lawyer, Super Lawyer and Top Lawyer for over a decade
- Co-wrote sections of California Construction Law, wrote scores of articles, including articles in the constructor and publishes regular articles in the Lubka & White website
- Member of the California Bar and several federal courts
- J.D. degree, with honors, George Washington University Law Center; B.A. degree
- Can be contacted at 626-301-0700, [email protected] or Lubka & White LLP, 222 E. Huntington Drive, Suite 215, Monrovia, CA
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