About this course

1 hour of California CLE, in the new “Technology in the Practice of Law” subfield requirement!

We hope you will join us on May 22, 2025 for a brand new, one hour live webinar: Best AI and other Software for Contract Drafters and Negotiators. 

·   NOT sponsored by any software vendor. Join us for impartial observations and practical tips, not a software sales pitch.

. For those of you who are lawyers licensed in California - do you know about the one hour CA CLE subfield requirement, Technology in the Practice of Law? This webinar offers it.

Software is great at searching and managing contracts, but few systems advance the ball related to drafting and negotiation. How is generative AI doing with contract drafting and negotiation, and is it time to adopt? Plus, which AI should lawyers and contract managers consider, and how should we use them?

But it's not just about AI. Word processing software remains our #1 tool, yet countless contracts are executed with wrong terms due to redlining errors. What high level word processing skills will speed our work and avoid these errors? And what other tech tools should contract drafters master?

This webinar will address all these issues. Topics include:

  • A review of the key AI drafting/negotiating tools
  • Recommendations on the best of those tools and how to use them
  • Advantages and disadvantages of using AI to draft and to negotiate
  • Effective use of redlining, systems for negotiation and for communication
  • And more ...

Enroll and you can ask David Tollen questions (via chat) and learn his impartial tips about the latest software tools. You also get access to a webinar recording for 30 days after (even if you miss the live event).

As usual, your instructor is David Tollen, author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, attorney, UC Berkeley lecturer, expert witness, and sought-after speaker.

Length: 1 hr. (CA CLE 1 hr. - Technology in the Practice of Law sub-field credit, approved through June 30, 2025. For courses taken or completed after June 30, 2025, TCA's renewal application for CA CLE is pending/awaiting approval by the California State Bar.)

MAY 22, 2025 - 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT






An individualized certificate is generated when you complete the course.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Tech Contracts Academy is an approved CLE multiple activity provider (MAP) in California, through June 30, 2025. For courses taken or completed after June 30, 2025, CA CLE credit is pending/awaiting approval by the California State Bar. We provide a CA CLE certificate (participatory for attending live webinar, self-study for watching recording/on-demand course; general credit, unless a sub-field is identified on a course’s sales page). Jurisdictions elsewhere (and professions) differ on whether students may apply individually, and if so what’s required. See here for details about CLE.

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David W. Tollen is one of the industry’s leading authorities on software contracts, including agreements about artificial intelligence, as well as SaaS and other forms of cloud computing. He is a sought-after speaker, and he’s been widely recognized for making complex topics easy to understand and engaging.

David is an attorney, the founder of Tech Contracts Academy, and the author of The Tech Contracts Handbook, a perennial bestseller from the American Bar Association. His experience includes teaching IT contracts at UC Berkeley Law School and work and testimony as an expert witness, as well as service as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company and as VP of Business Development for a tech startup. He began his career at Morrison & Foerster, a global law firm, and ultimately founded Sycamore Legal, PC, a boutique law firm focused on IT contracts. David's clients have ranged from Silicon Valley startups to some of the most influential companies in the world.

David graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley.


David's teaching style is informal and fun. He focuses on the business issues at stake in IT contracts.

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