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Course Outline
CONTRACTING IN TROUBLED TIMES
(One Day)
In these times of economic uncertainty, formulating strategies for managing legal risk has become a top priority for business owners. This mandate is especially important for contract managers and purchasers, whose daily work is rife with legal jeopardy. This seminar is designed especially for procurement professionals who need to know how best to navigate these volatile times, making increasingly effective and enforceable contracts while reducing their corporate and personal legal risk.
Contracting in Troubled Times is a pro-active seminar exploring what professionals can, could, must and must not do to avoid liability. Robert offers effective solutions to common contract problems, including those that arise when contractors or suppliers cut corners, reduce services, lower standards and even breach contracts as they endeavour to stay afloat in an uncertain financial climate. The seminar canvasses several critical areas of procurement law, uncovering where potential and likely risks exist, showing you how to handle them now, and most critically, how to avoid them in future.
Is your organization protected? This course will help you, the procurement professional, to ensure that you’ve got your liabilities covered and under control – so you can meet the challenges of today‘s economic downturn – expecting the best and well prepared for anything the future might bring.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Supply Contracts:
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• Failure to supply is breach – what your real remedies are |
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• Exclusions and limitations of liability can hurt you |
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• How to make penalties and bonuses work for you |
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• Unilateral change is breach … unless accepted |
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• Better Owner powers and remedies for the future |
Competitive Bidding:
• Creating non-binding competitions, |
• Essential Owner powers |
• Excluding and limiting Owner liability |
• How to solve unfairness |
• Creating better remedies for future |
Agency Relationships:
• Controlling what your Agents are doing and saying |
• Enforcing an Agent’s limits of authority |
• Better controls in future |
Employment Relationships:
• Changes to the employment relationship |
• Constructive dismissal |
• Notice |
• Continuing work (employee to independent consultant) |
• Ways not to fire someone |
• Better contracts in future |
Verbal and Electronic Contracts:
• Verbal contracts are binding |
• Verbal statements change contracts |
• False verbal statements create personal liability |
• Rave at your own risk (email and defamation) |
• The art of careful words |
And more!
Bring your questions!
For more information, please 
This seminar is currently in development for Fall 2010.
The Table of Contents will be available shortly.
Seminars are now being scheduled for the Winter / Spring 2010 season. No public seminars for this course will be scheduled for the foreseeable future. If you have 12 to 40 people in your organization to train, please contact us for an in-house course at rcworthington@shaw.ca. If you are interested in having a public course in your region, please fill out our Mailing List Form. When we have 15 people from any city interested in a course, we will schedule it. Thanks. |
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About the Instructor: ROBERT C. WORTHINGTON An award-winning lecturer in law, Robert C. Worthington, LLB,
has taught purchasers and contract managers throughout Canada for
over 26 years, specializing in the laws of contract, competitive
bidding and procurement. He has written two books on contract and
procurement law, designed especially for contracting and purchasing
professionals. Now, for informed purchasers who want current information
on issues in procurement law at their fingertips, Robert is pleased
to present his newsletter "The
Fine Print - Procurement Law Review". All of Robert's
publications and law seminars are entertaining as well as informative.
For more information please check out the links on his website at
www.purchasinglaw.com. |
If you are interested in this course, click here.
Robert C. Worthington
WORTHINGTON AND ASSOCIATES LTD.
Box 34192 Station D
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6J 4N1
email: rcworthington@shaw.ca
Tel: (604) 488-0114
