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The Osgoode Certificate in Negotiating and Drafting IT Agreements

The Osgoode Certificate in Negotiating and Drafting IT Agreements

Issued on 10 Jun 2026 by

Osgoode Professional Development, York University

Osgoode Professional Development, York University

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When negotiating and drafting IT agreements, you need to know what to look out for to anticipate problems, cover-off key points and adequately protect your client’s interests. Osgoode’s Certificate in Negotiating and Drafting IT Agreements is an innovate course offering a deep dive into the essential aspects of structuring, negotiating and drafting IT agreements. Program Director, Bradley Limpert leads an expert faculty of legal and IT specialists from leading technology companies to provide you with the knowledge and practical skills you need to competently and confidently negotiate and draft IT agreements. Over the course of four intensive days, you will acquire a comprehensive overview of key factors relevant to structuring an IT agreement, and practical tools to enable you to draft and negotiate the contentious clauses. You will also learn the critical business, technological, and IP aspects underlying IT agreements, so that you can approach your contracts with a thorough grounding in essential concepts.

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Osgoode Professional Development, York University

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Osgoode Professional Development is the lifelong learning arm of Osgoode Hall Law School, one of Canada’s leading law schools.

We provide a uniquely broad and flexible range of interdisciplinary graduate-level legal education to professionals with and without law degrees.

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What You’ll Learn

  1. Fundamentals of IT System components, players and activities

  2. Advanced negotiation strategies and tactics

  3. The key IP issues that affect IT agreements

  4. Strategies for allocating liability in an IT contract

  5. Critical cross-border considerations

  6. Best practices for proceeding ethically in contract negotiations

  7. Critical security and privacy issues and how to manage them

  8. Addressing compliance challenges in open source software licensing

  9. Drafting and negotiation issues that impact IT agreements

  10. Emerging issues and technology trends

Your learning will also be enhanced and reinforced by applying what you’ve learned in a take-home drafting assignment and during small group, skills-based “learn by doing” drafting and negotiation workshops where you will receive personalized feedback from legal and IT specialists.

Assessment Criteria

In order to obtain the Certificate, the learner must:

  1. complete/attend all modules; and
  2. successfully complete take-home drafting assignment.

Estimated learning effort

Approximately 35 hours of learning effort, spread over multiple weeks.

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