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Completing the IT Contract Now - session three: Liability Limits - what is standard?

Hosted by Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons (BLTL), this breakfast briefing is designed to share BLTL’s and industry expert speakers’ real life and practical experiences of IT contracts, clauses and negotiations in order to help you complete your contracts quicker and with better results.

What's being talked about?

Contentious clauses do not come much more contentious than limitation and exclusion clauses. The Customer may disagree vehemently with these exclusions. This contentious issue might be "parked" until late on in the negotiations – but it can then become  a "deal breaker" or "show stopper"!

Why should I attend?

Make your deals/relationships better and avoid ruining deals/relationships by:

• understanding how other organisations deal with this subject
• finding out what is "standard" and what is not "standard"
• being clear about the true meaning of commonly used phrases (e.g., limitation of liability, a total exclusion of liability, a cap, consequential or indirect losses etc)
• understanding how a cap on liability is set – see what the courts say
• learning how the law comes into play here (to ensure caps are reasonable)
• learning from case studies - finding out where things have gone right and where things have gone wrong
• understanding the latest industry and legal approaches on limitation of liability clauses

Who's speaking?

Jimmy Desai, Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons

Jimmy specialises in technology, Intellectual Property, Internet, outsourcing and corporate law.

He has worked for a wide range of clients including major blue chip clients (e.g. BT plc), public sector and government bodies (e.g. Amicus the Union), universities, high profile and hi-tech companies, major users of IT and individuals.

He regularly has articles published in a wide range of IP and Technology journals, magazines and newspapers. He is a member of SCL, TIPLO, ITMA, iTechLaw and Intellect. He lectures on technology law at the University of London, speaks at conferences and seminars in the UK and abroad and appears on Law Channel TV.

He has a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering (first class), Commendations in legal LPC & CPE courses and a Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law & Practice from the University of Bristol. Jimmy worked at large city law firms prior to joining Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons as a partner in 2004.

Who should attend?

• CEOs
• Finance directors
• In-house legal advisors
• Directors
• IT project managers
• IT sales people
• IT business development personnel
• IT consultants
• IT advisors

When and where is it?

Friday 20 June 2008

08:30 - 11:00 Completing the IT Contract Now

The Catalyst Group Room, Intellect Conference Suite, Russell Square House, 10-12 Russell Square, London WC1B 5EE

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