Brian Heller @briheller

The stock market has become a casino full of gamblers and now’s the time for caution.

is the stock market overvalued because it's filled with gamblers and day traders rolling the dice on AI stocks? trkmw.dowjones.com/view/6776e86...

Indemnity & Limitation of Liability for dummies (...and you too) [This article is republished by popular demand. I've tried to oversimplify a complex topic for illustration; Many other factors go into negotiations (eg insurance coverage, etc.

Indemnity & limitation on liability explained simply, for non lawyers.

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Free Contract Playbooks & Checklists from A to Z (Greatest Hits Compilation) In my blog “Contract Law Tips & Checklists” I offer free contract playbooks on various kinds of agreements (including NDAs, SaaS, AI, SOWs, etc.), and on various contract clauses (e.

Free contract Playbooks, Checklists & Contract Law Tips for all kinds of agreements (NDAs, SaaS, AI, SOWs, etc.), and all kinds of clauses (e.g., Indemnity and Limitation on Liability, Acceptance, Payment, etc.). For lawyers, & In plain English for non lawyers too

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On paper, a doorman gets paid to open a door. | Nick Romanos On paper, a doorman gets paid to open a door. An automatic door does it cheaper, faster, and never takes a lunch break. If you only measure the task, it’s obvious: we don’t need doormen in 2025. But...

Q: How is AI like a doorman? www.linkedin.com/posts/nickro...

Incorporating AI Training Language in Confidentiality Provisions and NDAs My amazing wife is also a lawyer at my same law firm. She just a wrote a timely and important blog post about including AI related language in NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) and in confidentiality p...

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Deal Post Mortem - How to Productively Reflect on a Contract After it is Signed At the end of any hard-fought deal, you or your client may not appreciate how much you achieved in your negotiations. In a good deal, you should feel that neither side "won" but that both sides compro...

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How much context / background info is enough to review a contract? (Deal Intake Forms) How much context and background information on a deal is enough? The answer, like for most legal questions, is “it depends.” As a lawyer, you want sufficient context on each deal to “right-size” your ...

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Let me review your contracts so you don’t have to. www.linkedin.com/in/briheller .

How much context / background info is enough to review a contract? How much context and background information on a deal is enough? The answer, like for most legal questions, is “it depends.” As a lawyer, you want sufficient context on each deal to “right-size” your ...

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Pet Owners Beware...This type of heat can lead to paw burns in just 1 minute for a dog walking on asphalt, about 5 minutes on sidewalk. don’t stay out long; keep them in shaded/grassy areas; (for small dogs pick them up when crossing street); and/or get pet socks to protect paws

Brilliant marketing by Apple… 😍 | Alvin Foo Brilliant marketing by Apple… 😍 Apple just released a 7 minute video and an 81 slide presentation on how to convince your parents to buy you a Mac for college. The presentation is available on Apple...

Lol - Apple created a funny "Parent Presentation" to teach kids how to convince their parents to buy them new Mac for college! Funny. www.linkedin.com/posts/alvinf... .

A Hemingway character, when asked how he went bankrupt, responded: “Two ways. | John Stauffer A Hemingway character, when asked how he went bankrupt, responded: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." That phrase came to mind as I read the recent research on the impact of artificial intelli...

How to write better AI prompts: upload your final draft and ask your model, “Give me the prompt that would have produced this output." That helps to improve your prompting in the future.

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Learning will never be the same. | Alex Banks Learning will never be the same. People are using Google’s Veo 3 to bring history to life: Gone are the days of bored classrooms reading from textbooks. You can now create vlog-style videos of famo...

What a use case! Using AI to make history lessons come alive! So cool! Great idea!

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Deal Post Mortem - How to Productively Reflect on a Contract After it is Signed At the end of any hard-fought deal, you or your client may not appreciate how much you achieved in your negotiations. In a good deal, you should feel that neither side "won" but that both sides compro...

At the end of any hard-fought deal, you or your client may not appreciate how much you achieved in your negotiations. I have a trick I use to remind myself (and the client) just how good a deal it was. I run a redline of the first draft versus the final version…

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Great illustration of different dev methods.

Free Contract Playbook . . . for the Zombie Apocalypse! -- The Risks of Over-lawyering Lawyers are notorious for planning for the worst case scenario. So if you want your contracts to be airtight, you don't just want any average "force majeure" clause - you also want one that anticipate...

For FRIDAY THE 13TH, Contract Playbook for the Zombie Apocalypse! (lawyers who over-lawyer)

"Force Majeure. Parties will be excused during a period (certified by CDC) of widespread viral infection transmitted via bites….causing corpses to reanimate…” Keep reading:

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AI will not replace lawyers. But it will separate the exceptional from the… | Aleksi Hokkanen AI will not replace lawyers. But it will separate the exceptional from the average. In one of my previous posts, I argued that companies do not pay for legal documents. They pay for professionals who...

“AI won't level the playing field. It'll make the gap btwn good & great even wider….The great lawyer will use AI to eliminate routine tasks and focus on high-impact decisions. The average lawyer may produce polished documents but struggle when judgment is required”

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Links to some of my most popular contract playbooks & resources: In this blog, “Contract Law Tips & Checklists” I offer free playbooks on various kinds of deals like SaaS agreements, AI deals, NDAs, etc., and on various contract clauses (e.

My blog “Contract Law Tips & Checklists” offers free playbooks on many contract types (SaaS, AI deals, NDAs, SOWs, etc) & many contract clauses (Indemnity & Limitation on Liability for dummies, 11 issues in payment clauses, etc.).

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Frame change technique for phase transient cancellation The precise control of complex quantum mechanical systems can unlock applications ranging from quantum simulation to quantum computation. Controlling …

If you’re looking for some light bedside reading, our son was published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance, “Frame change technique for phase transient cancellation”. More to come this summer. Enjoy!

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What Executive Orders Mean for Business in 2025 Webinar

Live, free, virtual webinar on navigating changes as an in-house lawyer. Regulatory landscape is changing (Executive Orders, New Tech like AI, New Privacy Laws, etc.). Thursday, May 22, at 1pm. Sign up now.
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Free SaaS Contract Playbook - Top 15 legal issues in SaaS agreements from BOTH the Customer & the Vendor perspective. They say SaaS is dead? Most AI is cloud based - therefore AI is SaaS. Long live #SaaS / #Cloud / #AI.

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SOW Playbook - Top 6 Tips to Write & Negotiate Statements of Work, from both perspectives (Customers & Vendors) Statements of Work (SOWs) can easily be considered one of the “workhorses” of commercial contracts, documenting key business terms. Below, I have a playbook or checklist of the top 6 key provisions to...

My free SOW Playbook - Statement of Work Top 6 issues & tips, from the perspective of each party (Customer & Vendor). The same advice applies equally to other similar documents, like Order Forms, Work Orders, Work Schedules, etc.

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8 Issues to Look for in an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) [republished] [This NDA Playbook / Checklist is being republished, by popular demand, to bring it to the top of my feed, as it is one of the most read articles in my Newsletter/blog archive. Originally published in...

NDA Playbook – 8 Issues to look for in an Non Disclosure Agreement

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Indemnity & Limitation of Liability for Dummies (and you too); What is a Liability Cap on an Indemnity, and Why Should I Care? [Republished] [This article is being republished by popular demand to bring to the top of my blog] If you work with a lot of contracts, you may already know that most contracts include an “indemnification” clause. ...

Indemnity & Limitation of Liability for Dummies (and you too); What is a Liability Cap on an Indemnity, and Why Should I Care?

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Schrödinger's cat: By that logic, if I haven’t studied yet for a test, A,B,C and D are ALL CORRECT ANSWERS….

Consequential Damages Limitations - The Boilerplate is Not Always Right Sometimes it’s fairly obvious whether damages are "Direct" vs "Consequential". However, there are situations where that's unclear.

Sometimes it’s fairly obvious whether damages are "Direct" vs "Consequential". However, there are situations where that's unclear. For that reason, even the so-called "boilerplate" limitation on liability clause needs to be reviewed and customized. www.linkedin.com/pulse/conseq...

My amazing wife, Stacey Heller, who is also a lawyer at my same firm, wrote this great blog post with a handy checklist what to look out for when your contracts are up for potential renewal:

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