There’s a reason you became a designer, and it probably didn’t have anything to do with lawyers and contracts. You're the expert in color, fabric, floor plans, and furniture schemes, not intellectual property and arbitration provisions. Have you ever had a client refuse to pay a bill, not give you credit for your work, or use your design scheme without hiring you? Thankfully, David Adler, a Chicago-based lawyer who understands the ins and outs of the design industry, will be on hand to share best practices to protect your business.
In this class, Chicago-based attorney David Adler will provide you with a basic client contract that you can use and customize. He will break it down for you section by section, so that you understand what it is, why it is important, how it can and should protect you and what information should be outlined in it.
In this class, you will learn:
By the end of class, you will have:
David Adler is an attorney, nationally-recognized speaker and founder of a boutique law practice focused on serving the needs of creative professionals in the areas of intellectual property, media & entertainment law. He providing advice on choosing business structures, protecting creative concepts and ideas through copyright, trademark, related intellectual property laws and contracts as well as structuring professional relationships. He has 17 years experience practicing law, including drafting and negotiating complex contracts and licenses with Fortune 500 companies, advising on securities laws and corporate governance, prosecuting and defending trademark applications, registrations, oppositions and cancellations before the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), and managing outside counsel. Currently recognized as an Illinois SuperLawyer® in the areas of Media & Entertainment Law, he was also a “Rising Star” for three years prior. He received his law degree from the DePaul University College of Law in 1997 and a double BA in English & History from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Outside the practice of law, Mr. Adler is an Adjunct Professor of Music Law at DePaul College of Law, formerly chaired the Chicago Bar Association's Media & Entertainment Law Committee and is currently a member of the Illinois State Bar Assoc. intellectual Property Committee.
