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David Tollen

Attorney David Tollen is the author of the American Bar Association’s bestselling manual on technology contracts, The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts, for Lawyers and Businesspeople, 2nd Ed. (ABA IP Section 2015). He’s a well-known speaker and author in the field of information technology agreements – and he provides training on drafting and negotiating technology contracts, for contract managers, procurement officers, salespeople, and IT staff, as well as for attorneys. David is also the founder of Sycamore Legal, P.C., an IP and IT boutique law firm in San Francisco, where he represents both buyers and sellers of information technology. Finally, David is the creator of TechContracts.com: a portal on IT contracts, providing free forms, articles, and other resources. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, and he has degrees from U.C. Berkeley and Cambridge University in England.

5 Simple Rules for Negotiating Software and IT Contracts

Published December 7, 2016

In the world of tech contracts, business-people and lawyers tend to screw up the same handful of clauses, in roughly the same ways. If you can avoid those mistakes—five of them—you’ll greatly improve your contracts and protect your bottom line.