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Contract Law for Paralegals

Date: Monday, May 22, 2017
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
Length: 90 minutes

Sponsored by Lorman Education Services


Registration for Session Only: $199.00

Registration plus Session Recording and Written Materials: $268.00
 

Description:

Increase your understanding of contract law and considerations above and beyond your basic contract knowledge.

The basic concepts of contract law are familiar to paralegals. This topic will increase your understanding of the contract law considerations well beyond those learned in a few months from your formal training.

The topics discussed in the material will give you a greater view of the actual communications involved between parties and attorneys during the negotiations and discussions of contracts, with the practical application of understanding how those communications result in the formation of a valid contract. The topics, including performance and breach, have much greater nuances than presented in basic contract law courses.

From this content, your communication skills showing greater knowledge of contract law will greatly enhance your standing with clients and attorneys by demonstrating your ability to understand and apply these more nuanced topics. You will also be given skills to further grasp the considerations related to proper remedies for breach, to recognize valid defense, all of which will provide further skill to your drafting of artful pleadings and discovery documents.

The knowledge that you will gain from this material will close the gap between your ability to sound like you know something about contract law, and actually having comprehensive knowledge of contract law.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Overview: Contracts Exist for Everyone in Almost Every Human Interaction

Know When Communication Between Parties Creates an Enforceable Contract

  • Identifying When Offer, Acceptance, and Consideration Have Been Communicated to
  • Form a Contract
  • Knowing the Differences Between an Offer, a Rejection, a Counter-Offer, a Counter-
  • Counter-Offer, a Counter-Counter-Counter Offer, etc.
  • Recognizing the Existence of a "Meeting of the Minds"
  • Drafting Considerations

Performance and Breach

  • Partial Performance and What to Do About It
  • What Circumstances Can Excuse Breach
  • Rights of Third Parties
  • Effects of the Statute of Frauds
  • Modification, Partial Performance, and Waiver

Remedies

  • Identifying Viable Causes of Action
  • What Are the Remedies? Money or Court Decrees or Both?
  • Valid Defenses and How to Identify Them
  • Procedural Considerations
  • Communication Tactics Needed to Prepare Proper Court Pleadings
  • Writing Pleadings as an Art: How to Do It, and Why It Matters

Miscellaneous Aspects of Contract Law

  • Drafting Effective Discovery Requests: One of the Keys to Success in Litigation
  • Concepts of Mitigation and What It Means for the Client
  • Alternative Remedies: Mediation and Arbitration, What's the Difference?
  • When to Appeal and Why
  • Nuts and Bolts of Appellate Practice
  • Post-Judgment Activities

Credit Information (Sponsored by Lorman Education Services):

  • NALA
  • Paralegals
For Detailed Credit Information page click here

Only registered attendee will receive continuing education credit.

Instructor Profile:

Alan Bryce Grossman, Alan Bryce Grossman, PA

  • Founder of Alan Bryce Grossman, PA
  • Practices in commercial litigation and transaction law
  • Developed expertise in real estate, commercial, construction, probate litigation and transactions in more than 20 years of practice
  • J.D. degree, University of Baltimore School of Law; B.A. degree, University of Florida
  • Can be contacted at 954-349-7760 or alan@abgrossman.com

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