Teaching a practical approach to tech trans course as an adjunct this winter. What the best tidbits you wish you knew as a junior day 1 or as a law student? Also happy to receive recommendations for texts or if you’re interested in speaking in the class

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Help people understand how real world tech contracts fit together: master agreement, SOW, DPA, embedded links, etc.

And tell them to follow Laura Frederick on LinkedIn. She posts great tech trans tips every day. Her book "How to Contract" is good too.

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100% this. First years tend to struggle a lot with the document stack, including understanding how amendments operate.

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Obviously, focus on the commercial terms. But the legal terms I really wish I started mastering on day 1 in a tech trans context were the interactions between:

Limits of liability, indemnity, and disclaimer of warranty

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Actually I agree with this

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Understand at a high level the concept of SLAs. Understand at a high level there are practical and legally substantive differences between cloud/ SaaS platforms and licensed software. High level understanding that an NDA is not the same as a license for software.

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Business considerations > legal issues; research the companies involved and try to understand what the business need is; ask your clients questions and really listen to their answers; get a subscription to hbr and actually read each issue

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I second the HBR subscription

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How did you find your adjunct teaching role? I have been interested in doing something like this but not sure where to start!

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I was asked by the school; I’m in a niche practice area

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