AI Vendor Due Diligence: 8-Point Legal Checklist for Businesses Adopting Third-Party AI Tools
Your company adopts a third-party AI tool. The vendor provides their standard agreement, which runs to fifteen pages of terms that your team skims before clicking accept. Six months later, a client asks who owns the content your team generated using the AI. Your finance team discovers the vendor has…
E-Sign Act and Electronic Signatures: What Makes Your Digital Contracts Legally Binding
Electronic signatures have replaced wet ink in virtually every area of business contracting. A SaaS agreement executed through DocuSign, an NDA accepted via email reply, a click-through contract accepted through a checkbox on a web form: these are all valid, enforceable contracts under US law, provided they meet the requirements…
B2B Marketplace Terms of Service: What Buyers and Sellers Actually Need
Learn what a B2B marketplace terms of service must include: operator vs. party roles, seller vetting standards, dispute resolution, payment terms, IP licensing, and liability limits.
SaaS Free Trial Terms of Service: What Your Agreement Must Include Before Auto-Charging Customers
Learn what your SaaS free trial terms of service must include before auto-charging customers. Covers FTC requirements, payment authorization, cancellation policy, pricing disclosure, and more.
Two-Sided Marketplace Terms of Service: Legal Requirements for Platforms with Buyers and Sellers
A two-sided marketplace is not a standard business website and should not be governed by standard website terms of service. When your platform connects buyers and sellers, hosts and guests, service providers and clients, or creators and consumers, you are operating in the middle of multiple independent legal relationships simultaneously….
Independent Contractor vs. Employee for Tech Companies: What Your Contracts Must Get Right
Most technology companies rely on contractors at some point, and many rely on them extensively. Frontend developers, UX designers, QA engineers, technical writers, and DevOps consultants are routinely hired as independent contractors, especially during product sprints, launch phases, and scaling periods. The legal risk in this arrangement is not the…
Multi-Tenant SaaS Contracts: Data Isolation Clauses Your Agreement Must Address
When multiple customers share the same software infrastructure, the legal obligations between them and you become significantly more complex. Multi-tenant SaaS architecture is efficient and scalable. It is also a source of legal exposure that most SaaS contracts fail to address with adequate precision. A multi-tenant SaaS agreement that does…
SaaS Free Trial Terms of Service: What Every Clause Must Cover
Most SaaS companies launch free trials with little more than a checkbox and a credit card field. The legal framework governing that trial is an afterthought — if it exists at all. That is a serious mistake. A free trial that converts to a paid subscription without proper disclosures, clearly…
SaaS Partnership and Revenue Sharing Agreements: What the Contract Must Say
A SaaS partnership — whether it is a reseller arrangement, a co-sell agreement, a white-label deal, or a revenue share with an integration partner — creates financial obligations, IP exposure, and data-sharing relationships that a standard SaaS subscription agreement is not built to handle. When these partnerships are documented with…
How to Protect Source Code Ownership When Hiring Contractors
When you hire a freelance developer or an outside agency to build your software, you are not automatically the owner of what they create. Under US copyright law, independent contractors own the work they produce unless you have a written agreement that transfers those rights to you. A verbal understanding,…