Contract Law 3-Hour Virtual Bootcamp: Introduction to Contract Law & Dispute Resolution, Renegotiation, and Interpretation
OVERVIEW
When it comes to contracts, there’s no such thing as one size
fits all. While there are many common terms and themes that appear in contracts
--- offer, acceptance, consideration, and the inevitable boilerplate--- each
agreement has its own distinctive characteristics. These will be specific to
the client and the particulars of the deal.
Nuanced contract drafting ensures they are accurately captured
in the agreement. This in turn demands a firm grasp of the trickier aspects of
the draftsman’s art. Depending on how the contract is drafted, you can
demonstrate exceptional value-addition as counsel or set your client up for bad
times down the road.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND
A typical boilerplate provision in most contracts is called an
integration clause. The parole evidence rule, recognized in the common law of
every American state and many other nations, operates to exclude oral
testimony, especially when an integration clause is included.
Such a provison will also usually operate to exclude other
documents from consideration in a subsequent contract dispute. However,
commonly the contracting parties tend to attach exhibits to their agreements,
rather than spelling out every excruciating detail in the main document.
The attachment may be an original legal document, such as a
predecessor contract; a table or other data set or formula too complex to
clutter up the contract document itself; a published brochure or
engineering/scientific study; or other supplementary materials. Sometimes cross
referencing a pre-existing or parallel contract is crucial to a complete
understanding, as with an employee handbook, summary plan description, master
or umbrella agreement, or predecessor MOU.
Despite the efficiency of attaching a supplement to your
contract, there can be important risks to consider in ensuring that the
supplemental material has the intended effect.
Despite our best efforts as counsel and our clients’ best
intentions, business contractual relationships sometimes result in disputes
rather than commercial success stories. From interpretation of the terms of the
deal to disagreements over whether one party adequately performed, the parties
will need to find a way to resolve their dispute.
What is the best way to do so? Do we go to court? Mediate and/or
arbitrate? Renegotiate? Under any one or more of these options, looking to the
contract and interpreting its terms will play a crucial role.
AREAS COVERED
- Ensure regulatory compliance with IRS information
reporting and backup withholding requirements for NRAs
- Understand how to manage nonresident alien payee' tax
issues efficiently
- Develop an effective plan to improve your company's
regulatory compliance
- How to determine whether Nonresident Aliens are working
for you
- The five variations of Forms W-8, including the most
recent addition - W-8BEN-E
- How to determine which W-8 to provide to the NRA
- How NRA individuals must support their claim of
exemption from withholding
- The best way to handle questions from NRAs who do not
understand your requests or the forms
- Tax treaties and how to use them to confirm a claim of
exemption from or reduced rate of backup withholding
- How to make your backup withholding deposits timely and
keep the IRS from confusing them with your payroll tax and other
withholding deposits
- Form 1042-S reporting requirements and related forms
for filing and reporting backup withholding on the Annual Withholding Tax
Return
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Contract law basics; a deeper dive into some of the more complex
issue in negotiating, interpreting, and enforcing contracts; and, when the
contractual relationship goes sour, the ADR techniques that will keep you clear
of the courts.
Regardless of your profession, occupation or business, you swim
in a sea of contracts. Your personal life, too, is controlled by contracts;
from your auto loan to your mortgage to your health insurance, your world is
held together by contracts. Yet few business and professional people really
understand the basic rules of contract formation and interpretation, much less
the bells and whistles of a complex contract, or what to do if one party or the
other is in breach. This knowledge is essential.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
- Executives
- Middle managers
- Finance officers
- Purchasing agents
- Legal counsel
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