About this course

California lawyers, this course gives you all the credit you need for the new, required subfield: Technology in the Practice of Law! (For other jurisdictions, we provide self-certification resources. See below.)

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.

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.

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



We generate an individual certificate when you complete the course.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Credit is available!

  • California: Tech Contracts Academy is an approved CLE multiple activity provider (MAP). And for this course, you get the 1 hour of credit you need under the new Technology in the Practice of law subfield. Your CLE certificate is participatory for live webinars and self-study for on-demand courses and for recordings of live webinars. (For courses completed after June 30, 2025, our CA CLE approval is pending renewal.) 
  • All Jurisdictions: We provide a certificate and other resources for self-certification. (Jurisdictions differ on whether students may apply individually and, if so, what’s required. See here for details about CLE.)

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Your Instructor


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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