Legal, Contracts & Compliance training courses
Draft, negotiate and manage agreements, and keep the organisation on the right side of regulation.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Contract Drafting and Management
Poorly drafted contracts cost organisations far more than they ever save in legal fees. This course takes participants through the full life of a commercial agreement, from instructions and drafting to variation, performance management and close out, with an emphasis on clear language and terms that can actually be enforced.
Commercial Contract Negotiation
Negotiation decides how much value a contract actually delivers. This programme builds a disciplined approach to preparation, exchange and closure, so that negotiators enter the room knowing their limits and leave with agreements both sides can perform.
Contract Risk and Dispute Resolution
Most contract disputes are visible long before they escalate. This course equips participants to spot early warning signs, document properly, and resolve issues through negotiation, mediation or adjudication before they reach a courtroom.
Licensing, Permits and Regulatory Applications
Operations stall when a licence lapses or an application is returned incomplete. This course covers identifying what your operation must hold, preparing applications that succeed first time and keeping authorisations current.
Employment Law for Managers
Managers make employment decisions daily, often without any legal training. This course gives line managers a working command of the employment framework so that hiring, discipline, performance management and termination are handled fairly and defensibly.
Protection of Personal Information Compliance
Organisations that hold personal information carry legal duties over how it is collected, used, stored and shared. This course explains those duties in practical terms and shows participants how to build the records, notices and controls that demonstrate compliance.
Competition Law and Fair Trading
Competition breaches carry severe penalties and often arise from ordinary commercial conduct that staff did not recognise as risky. This course explains prohibited practices in plain terms and builds the awareness that keeps commercial teams on the right side of the line.
Litigation Management for In House Teams
Litigation is expensive whichever way it ends, and much of the cost is decided by how the organisation behaves in the first weeks. This course covers managing a dispute from the first letter, instructing and controlling external lawyers, and deciding when to settle.
Commercial Law for Managers
Managers commit their organisations legally through ordinary decisions and correspondence. This course covers the commercial law that governs those commitments, so that managers recognise when they are creating an obligation and when they need advice.
Intellectual Property Fundamentals
Organisations create valuable intellectual property daily and lose it through inattention. This course covers the main forms of protection, what each one covers and the practical steps that keep ownership where it belongs.
Consumer Protection and Fair Practice
Consumer facing organisations carry duties over how they market, contract and handle complaints. This course covers those duties in practical terms and the changes to terms and processes they require.
Construction Contracts and Claims
Construction disputes usually turn on notice, records and programme rather than on engineering. This course covers the standard forms in use, the administration they demand and how time and money claims are built and defended.
Legal Drafting for Non Lawyers
Much of the writing that creates legal effect is done by people without legal training. This course teaches precise drafting for letters, notices, terms and memoranda, so that documents say what was intended and nothing more.
Lease Agreements and Property Contracts
Property leases commit organisations for years and contain obligations that surface only when something goes wrong. This course covers negotiating and administering commercial leases, from rent review to reinstatement at the end of the term.
Insurance Contracts and Claims for Business
Organisations discover the limits of their cover at the moment they need it. This course covers reading a policy properly, meeting the duties that keep cover valid and presenting a claim that gets paid.
Data Sharing and Processor Agreements
Personal information routinely moves to suppliers, partners and cloud services, and the contract is what keeps that lawful. This course covers drafting and reviewing the agreements that govern shared and outsourced data.
Debt Recovery and Legal Enforcement
Chasing payment through the courts is slow and often uneconomic, so the decisions made before that point matter most. This course covers the enforcement routes available and how to judge which debts are worth pursuing.
Service Level Agreements and Outsourcing
Outsourcing fails when the service level agreement measures the wrong things or has no consequence attached. This course covers designing service levels that drive behaviour and governing an outsourced relationship over its life.
Land Rights and Property Transactions
Property deals fail on things that were knowable: a servitude nobody read, a title condition, an occupier with rights. This course covers what to establish before an organisation commits.
Anti Money Laundering Duties for Non Financial Businesses
Estate agents, dealers in high value goods, accountants and lawyers carry money laundering duties that most of them have never been trained on. This course covers what applies outside the financial sector and what a supervisor expects to see.
Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
When a business runs out of money, directors face duties that change and options that narrow quickly. This course covers restructuring options and the obligations that attach as insolvency approaches.
Subcontractor Management and Payment
Main contractors carry the risk of subcontractor failure and the disputes that come with payment chains. This course covers engaging subcontractors and managing payment down the chain.
Confidentiality and Non Disclosure Agreements
Confidentiality agreements are signed routinely and rarely read, then relied on when something leaks. This course covers drafting and negotiating them so they actually protect information.
Agency and Representation Agreements
Appointing someone to act on your behalf creates liability for what they do. This course covers structuring agency arrangements and controlling the risk they carry.
Force Majeure and Contract Frustration
When events prevent performance, parties reach for force majeure and often find the clause does not cover what happened. This course covers drafting and invoking these provisions properly.
Arbitration Clause Drafting
A badly drafted arbitration clause produces a dispute about where to dispute. This course covers drafting clauses that work and understanding what you are agreeing to.
Franchise and Distribution Agreements
Franchise and distribution arrangements give someone else control of your brand in a territory. This course covers structuring these agreements and the obligations that come with them.
Employment Contracts and Restraint Clauses
Employment contracts are signed once and relied on years later, usually when someone leaves for a competitor. This course covers drafting terms that hold, including restraints that are actually enforceable.
Regulatory Investigations and Enforcement
When a regulator opens an investigation, early decisions shape the outcome more than later argument. This course covers responding properly from first contact through to sanction.
Public Private Partnership Agreements
Partnership arrangements bind a public body and a private operator for decades, and the risk allocation written at the start governs everything after. This course covers structuring and managing them.
Warranty and Product Liability
A product that injures someone or fails in the field creates liability that contract terms cannot fully exclude. This course covers managing warranty obligations and defending liability claims.
Cross Border Contracting and Jurisdiction
A contract between parties in different countries raises questions of which law applies and where a dispute is heard, usually only when something has gone wrong. This course covers settling those questions up front.
Sale of Goods and Supply Terms
Supply arrangements often run on purchase orders and invoices with terms nobody compared. This course covers the terms that govern sale of goods and what happens when they conflict.
Standard Terms and Battle of the Forms
Both parties send their own terms and each assumes theirs apply, which is discovered only in dispute. This course covers how that contest is resolved and how to win it.
Dispute Boards and Adjudication
Long projects benefit from resolving disagreements as they arise rather than saving them for the end. This course covers standing dispute boards and adjudication.
Confidential Information in Employment
Employees learn things the organisation cannot afford to have leave with them, and the law protects far less of it than employers assume. This course covers protecting information through employment and after it ends.
Contract Interpretation Principles
When parties disagree about what a contract means, the answer comes from established interpretation rules rather than from what either intended. This course covers how contracts are actually read.
Environmental Law and Compliance Obligations
Environmental breaches carry criminal liability that reaches individuals, not just the company. This course covers the authorisations an operation must hold and the duties attached to them.
Workplace Mediation and Early Resolution
Workplace disputes escalate into grievances and claims mainly because nobody intervened while the problem was small. This course covers mediating between colleagues before positions harden.
Evidence and Record Keeping for Legal Proceedings
Cases are won and lost on what can be produced and proved, not on what people remember. This course covers creating and preserving records that will hold up if they are ever tested.
Procurement Law and Bid Challenges
An unsuccessful bidder who believes the process was unfair can stop an award and unwind a contract. This course covers running procurement that survives challenge, and responding when one arrives.
Statutory Interpretation for Compliance Staff
Compliance teams are handed legislation and expected to say what it requires, often without any training in how legal text is actually read. This course covers reading it correctly.
Debarment and Supplier Blacklisting
Excluding a supplier protects the organisation and exposes it at the same time, because a debarment that cannot be defended becomes a claim. This course covers doing it so it holds.
Expert Witness and Court Preparation
A technical expert can be completely right and still lose the point under cross examination, because giving evidence is a separate skill from knowing the subject. This course covers that skill.
Insolvency and Business Rescue Essentials
By the time insolvency is discussed openly the useful options have usually expired, and directors have often already incurred personal exposure. This course covers recognising it early and acting lawfully.
Cross Border Data Transfer Rules
The moment data sits on a server in another country a second set of rules applies, and most organisations discover this after signing the cloud contract. This course covers transferring data lawfully.
Legal Privilege and Protecting Advice
Privilege is lost casually, by copying in the wrong person or asking for advice in the same email as a business instruction. This course covers keeping legal advice protected.
Arbitration Practice and Procedure
Parties choose arbitration expecting speed and privacy, then run it like litigation and get neither. This course covers conducting an arbitration the way the process was designed to work.
Contract Variations and Change Orders
Most contract disputes are not about the contract signed but about the changes made afterwards, agreed verbally on site and priced later. This course covers controlling change so it stays enforceable.
Confidentiality Breaches and Remedies
By the time a confidentiality breach is noticed the information is usually already out, and the question becomes what can still be salvaged. This course covers responding and containing the damage.
Powers of Attorney and Signing on Behalf
People sign for organisations every day on an authority nobody has checked, and the document is only tested when somebody wants out of it. This course covers granting and relying on authority safely.
Notarisation Apostille and Document Legalisation
A document that is perfectly valid at home is worth nothing abroad without the right certification, and deals stall for weeks while it is sorted out. This course covers getting it right first time.
Indemnities and Limitation of Liability Clauses
These two clauses decide who carries the loss when something goes wrong, and they are often copied between contracts without being read against the deal in front of you. This course covers reading them, drafting them and negotiating them.
Expert Determination and Valuation Disputes
Some contract disagreements are about a number rather than a right, and sending those to arbitration wastes time and money. This course covers the expert determination route and how to draft for it.