Legal Innovators California

Open source has fundamentally transformed software development for the benefit of the entire ecosystem. Why hasn’t legal done the same? Why do cloud service providers and their customers still start every relationship with a battle of the forms? A new trend of standard agreements for the enterprise is gaining traction and has lawyers collaborating across companies and law firms to create best-practice, free-to-use forms. Todd Smithline will bring you up to date on this movement and the role the Bonterms Open Source Forms Committee is playing in helping to foster negotiations that preserve goodwill while yielding mutually acceptable results for the parties.