Webinar Registration Form

Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024
Time: 9 AM PST | 12 PM ET | 4 PM GMT

Contract Nerds presents a free 75-minute virtual webinar on Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 9am PT/12pm ET/4pm GMT on “The Dos and Don'ts of Agreement Reviews and Negotiations” with:

• Speaker, Jessica Nguyen, Deputy General Counsel, Docusign
• Speaker, Nate Kostelnik, Director of Contracts, IP, & Legal Ops, Oncology Nursing Society
• Speaker, Laura Belmont, General Counsel, Civis Analytics
• Host, Nada Alnajafi, Sr. Corporate Counsel, Franklin Templeton | Founder of Contract Nerds | Author, Contract Redlining Etiquette
  
  

Join us to master the art of reviewing and negotiating agreements with eight important do’s and don’ts. Learn to focus on what truly matters and do it better than AI. It’s job security! Our pragmatic and experienced agreement reviewers and negotiators are here to break down the most critical agreement clauses and the best approach to get buy-in from the other side for a win-win outcome for all.

What You'll Learn:

✔️ We will walk you through a sample agreement, and talk you through example contract redlines and explanations for these key legal provisions: Data Use and AI Related Clauses, Termination Rights, Indemnification, and Limitation of Liability.

✔️ How to better understand AI related clauses and how to conduct AI diligence if contracting with an AI vendor.

✔️ How to build rapport with counterparties and forge an ally with the other side’s business driver to help close contracts faster.

 Why join LIVE: 

✔️ CLE credit or CPE Credit*

✔️ Chance to win Contract Nerds swag

✔️ Chat live with hundreds or other lawyers and contracts professionals from around the world

✔️ An opportunity to win a 1:1 coaching session w/ Jessica Nguyen, Deputy General Counsel – Docusign

✔️ Ask the speakers your questions and hear them answered live

What if I can't join live? Anyone who registers for this event will be able to watch it LIVE for free and ON-DEMAND for one week. After that, the recording will be added to the Contract Nerds Video Library.

 

Registrants get:

✔️ Lifetime access to presentation materials

✔️ Access to watch the webinar recording free for 7 days

CLE or CPE Credit

Live attendees have the opportunity to receive either a: 1) Certificate of Attendance for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) for U.S. lawyers; 2) Certificate of Attendance for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) for contract managers; or 3) general Proof of Attendance. One certificate per person.

CLE Approved: CA

CLE Pending: FL, TX, WA

CLE Self-Reporting: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CT, CO, HI, IA, ID, KY, NC, NH, NJ, NV, MN, MO, MT, MD, OR, RI, SC, TN, UT, VA, WI, WV, WY. We can provide you with a certificate of completion but please check with your state bar for self-reporting requirements and steps.

CLE Credits: 1.25 general credit

CPE Credits: 1

Jessica Nguyen

Deputy General Counsel, at Docusign

Jessica Nguyen is the Deputy General Counsel of AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign, the market leader in e-signature and intelligent agreements. Her role at Docusign focuses on building AI technology that actually solves pain points and ensuring that the technology is built responsibly. She’s formerly the Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, the AI-powered legal intake and contract lifecycle management system, which was acquired by Docusign in May 2024.

She has an extensive in-house legal career at innovative tech companies of various sizes and stages and has been the first legal hire that built out the legal function of a company 3 times. Prior to Docusign and Lexion, she was the General Counsel and first in-house attorney at PayScale, a Microsoft Office 365 attorney, and the first in-house attorney at Avalara.

Jessica is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and is an award-winning General Counsel, including, the: 2023 Washington State Bar Association Legal Innovation Award, 2020 “Startup GC of the Year” by Corporate Counsel magazine, 2019 Top 100 Legal Influencers by The Business Journals, 2019 Best Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and 2018 Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40.

Nate Kostelnik

Director of Contracts, IP, & Legal Ops at Oncology Nursing Society

Nate is the Director, Contracts with Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), where he handles all commercial contracting matters, as well as intellectual property, insurance, facilities, and legal operations. Prior to joining ONS, Nate was in private legal practice, concentrating in corporate and transactional law, intellectual property, and commercial litigation.

 

Laura Belmont

General Counsel at Civis Analytics 

Laura Belmont is General Counsel at Civis Analytics, where she leads the legal and compliance functions. Previously, she was in-house counsel at Comcast in the Legal Compliance Group, a white collar associate at Latham & Watkins, and a staff attorney at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Laura is passionate about equity, inclusion, voting rights, and civic engagement. She is a mom to two-elementary school aged children and one puppy, and spends her non-work day hours as a chauffeur/play date scheduler/soccer mom.

Nada Alnajafi

Sr. Corporate Counsel, Franklin Templeton & Founder of Contract Nerds

Nada Alnajafi is an award-winning in-house attorney, speaker, author, and the Founder of Contract Nerds. She currently serves as Sr. Corporate Counsel for Franklin Templeton, a Fortune-500 global financial services organization, where she manages buy-side commercial and technology agreements. Previously, she served as in-house counsel for booming startups and large OEMs within the automotive and tech industries. While Nada is a generalist with experience handling intellectual property, employment, and other corporate matters, she is particularly passionate about contracts. Since 2020, she dedicates much of her time outside of work to creating resources about contracts for lawyers and contracts professionals, including via her company Contract Nerds, her book Contract Redlining Etiquette, and her LinkedIn posts. Nada recently received recognition as an ACC Top 10 30-Something and a World CC Inspiring Women of 2023.

 

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives.

With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign IAM, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

 

Learn more about Docusign