Legal & Business Affairs: Keeping it plain and simple
4th November 2020
At LBA we have some guiding principles on the legal contracts you use in your business: Write them in plain and simple English, Treat them as the final part of your commercial negotiations, If you don’t understand them what’s the point of having them
We and our clients think these principles make a refreshing change. Keep the ‘hereinbefores’ and the ‘whereinafters’ where they belong. In the history books. And we encourage our clients to keep control of what goes into their business contracts. Lawyers are technically competent but is their advice commercially practical? You and the people you are contracting will have to live with these contracts, often for a long time.
The business contracts we typically put together and advise on are the usual suspects: Terms and Conditions of Business and all the Employment paraphanalia.
As well as producing your T&Cs we’ll advise you on those (often indecipherable) ones sent to you for signature. Beware the customer’s dreaded ‘Conditions of Purchase’ sent to you usually by a larger customer who wants to control pretty much everything in the contract. Things like how long it can be before you get paid or what happens if they want to walk away from the contract early. These Conditions are written to protect your customer, not you. In the worse case scenarios they can put you out of business
Contact us for a free review of the business contracts you are currently using and a fixed price quote to put them right. Email paul@legalbusinessaffairs.com or call 07770 855140 to find out more.
