The following is just one real-life example from a single contract:

❌ Removed GDPR compliance requirements

❌ Removed compliance with the company’s standard operating procedures

❌ Removed language requiring Faculty Connection to evidence compliance with representations and warranties along with the client’s ability to terminate

❌ Removed language allowing the company to inspect facilities and equipment used in consulting activities

❌ Removed access to Faculty Connection’s standard operating procedures

❌ Removed adherence to the company’s “code of business conduct”

❌ Removed the requirement to wear a hard cap on the clock

❌ Removed references to withholdings for VAT

❌ Removed language allowing for withholding tax on pass-through payments (e.g. reimbursement of expenses)

❌ Removed language allowing client to evaluate the quality of work before paying an invoice

❌ Removed language requiring reporting for the Sunshine Act

❌ Removed language requiring compliance with local laws and regulations applicable to the client, along with facilitating the client’s compliance

❌ Removed language allowing for the receipt of trade secrets

❌ Removed language involving foreign governing laws

❌ Removed language involving foreign jurisdiction for disputes

Additions & Increases:

✅ Negotiated the standard of performance language to be less onerous on the consultant

✅ Softened the representations and warranties language

✅ Added language allowing the consultant to perform similar consulting work

✅ Added language protecting the pre-existing intellectual property of the consultant

✅ Added language protecting any exchange of confidential information by the consultant

✅ Limited the period of confidentiality to a reasonable term

✅ Added mutual termination

✅ Added indemnification by the client for Faculty Connection and the consultant

✅ Added language ensuring academic protection and freedom for the consultant

✅ Increased consultant’s rate from $445 to $500