How to Get Good at Contracts
How do I get good at contracts? Can I request my employment contract? What are the 3 main rules in contract law?
A legal contract exists when one party makes an offer and the other party accepts it. You have a right to get a written statement from your employer describing the main terms of the contract. Once you sign an agreement or agree to a salary, it is bad form to renegotiate. Both parties need to agree to changes, in the same format as the original contract.
Top Contract Negotiation Strategies
That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the 12 best contract negotiation strategies below to help you get signatures on contracts faster and with the most optimal terms.
To get best value from your lawyers, and best value for money, you need to give them proper instructions and guidance. Some lawyers, if left in a vacuum of instructions, will take every point, and push it to the nth degree until told to stop. This may be counter-productive for the deal, and is almost certain to involve wasted abdication expenditure.
Effective Contract Negotiation
Know ahead of time what you’ll do if an editor says no to your requests, says freelancer Robert Bittner, who has written for American Profile, The Writer, Preservation, Family Circle and other publications and who currently is working on his fourth book. In contracts, as in life, you’re not likely to get everything you want. The goal here is to make your contract workable so that you gain some ground. (Though I did recently manage to cross out nearly three pages worth of clauses on a five-page contract for Shape UK.)