Guides on deals and customers
Contracts with customers, clients, retailers, manufacturers, licensees and landlords. Each guide is for education and gives no legal advice.
Questions to ask a lawyer about: A first customer contract · A large customer’s contract · A client contract · A retail deal · A manufacturer · A partnership or license · A lease
All 6 guides
Selling to retailers: what to have ready
Selling to retailers or a distributor? The facts about your product, supply chain and brand that a lawyer may want before you sign their agreement.
Read →Customer contract review: what to have ready
Before a customer contract review: the customer’s draft, any security or privacy questionnaire and your own terms, and what a lawyer may ask.
Read →Commercial lease checklist for tenants
A commercial lease checklist for tenants: the landlord’s draft, the space, the permits and your plans, and what a lawyer may ask before you sign.
Read →Co-packer agreement: what to have ready
Your co-packer or manufacturer agreement, your formula or design, and who has seen what: what to gather, and what a lawyer may ask, before you sign.
Read →License agreement checklist: what to have ready
Licensing your brand, content or technology, or taking a license from someone else: what to gather, and what to mark in the draft, before a lawyer reviews it.
Read →Client service agreement: what to have ready
Scope, payment, deliverables and who owns the work: what a service business can gather before a lawyer drafts or reviews its client service agreement.
Read →Questions these guides answer
- Do I need a trademark before selling in retail?
- My manufacturer has no written agreement with us. Is that a problem?
- The retailer says its agreement can’t be changed. Should a lawyer still look?
- How much does a lawyer charge to review a contract?
- Should we sign the customer’s contract or send our own?
- The customer says its terms are standard. Should a lawyer still look?
- Should I sign the letter of intent before I talk to a lawyer?
- Do I need a lawyer for a small space?
- The landlord wants a personal guarantee. What should I bring?
- Should I send my formula to a new manufacturer before we sign anything?
- What if we never signed anything with our current manufacturer?
- Should we use the manufacturer’s contract or our own?
- Do we need to own something before we license it?
- They want an exclusive license. Is that unusual?
- Does a license have to be in writing?
- Should we use our contract or the client’s?
- A client wants to own everything we make. Is that normal?
- We’ve never had a written contract. Where do we start?
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