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Commercial Contracting
In today’s challenging economic environment, it is more important than ever for companies large and small to leverage their internal processes relating to the commercial arrangements and agreements that drive their businesses.
Husch Blackwell’s Commercial Contracting practice group provides prompt, practical, business-focused assistance to our clients looking to improve the quality of their commercial contract review and risk assessment while decreasing response time and freeing important internal business and legal resources to focus on strategy and growth.
The group assists clients in the preparation and negotiation of a variety of commercial agreements and business relationships, such as everyday terms and conditions of purchase and sale; distributorship and representative arrangements; consulting and other services contracts; confidentiality agreements; noncompetition agreements; teaming agreements; software licensing arrangements; and a variety of carefully crafted solutions geared toward putting our clients in the best positions possible to capitalize on the ever-changing marketplace.
The Commercial Contracting practice group provides our clients with the following services:
Prompt attention from knowledgeable counsel. The Commercial Contracting practice group can promptly allocate the right attorney with the right skill-set for the job to maximize results while minimizing costs
Efficient processes and resources. Each member of the Commercial Contracting practice group pairs his or her strong experience in commercial arrangements with the firm’s broad cache of form documents and its full-service excellence to provide our clients top-notch legal counsel in a cost-effective manner.
Practical, integrated advice. We strive to provide our clients careful, business-aware legal counsel, focused on identifying and creatively addressing areas of risk while keeping the client’s business goals foremost in their minds.
Consistent advice from attorneys who know our clients’ businesses. We work to develop strong ties with our clients by developing consistent working relationships, allowing us to free up clients’ internal resources to manage important strategic tasks while providing even more business-specific solutions in commercial arrangements.
Husch Blackwell is committed to recruiting, developing, retaining, and promoting talented attorneys and staff. We believe diversity encompasses a variety of characteristics, including race, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, education, and family and marital status.
Our environment is essential to both the quality of our client service and the personal satisfaction of our lawyers and staff.
Our efforts have been recognized both nationally and locally in promoting diversity. We received a top rating of 100 percent in the Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the Equal Justice Award, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, and named one of the Top 100 Law Firms for Women by MultiCultural Law Magazine.
Minority and female partners hold senior leadership positions in management, which fully supports the wide variety of initiatives coordinated by our firm’s Diversity Committee.
We are actively involved in promoting diversity within the legal profession. Our firm endorsed the diversity commitment and action plans of our local bar associations.
Diversity and inclusiveness make us a stronger firm and better able to understand our clients’ needs. We are committed to pursue, promote and enhance diversity at Husch Blackwell.
Matter Budgeting and Financial Management
Does the firm establish formal budgets for client engagements?Yes
Are bills submitted electronically?Yes
Quality Management
Does the firm conduct end of matter reviews?Yes
Litigation General Best Practices
Does the firm have a formalized new associate litigation training/mentoring program?Yes
Does the firm's litigation department have a structured approach to early case assessment? For example: Does your firm implement a standard approach to determine risks and strengths early in a case to assess trial or settlement options?Yes
Does the firm have an established records management team to assist clients with records retention, compliance and litigation preparedness?Yes
Vendor Management
Does the firm have preferred vendor relationships?Yes
Knowledge Management
Does the firm have a knowledge management program?Yes
Disaster Recovery
Does the firm have a disaster recovery plan in place?Yes
Litigation eDiscovery Best Practices
Does your firm have any educational programs designed to address the changing federal rules of civil procedure?Yes
Does the firm have a standardized litigation hold program in place for its clients?Yes
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