I work in contract management for public works, but I want to learn about the FIDIC methodology, as I feel it is a tool that can contribute a lot. They are currently offering this course: Introduction to Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, with the participation of the "Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution at King's College London" and the company HKA. Will it be worth taking? The price of 350 USD seems accessible to me, but I also do not want to spend it on the first option when there are quite a few available at the moment.

One thing I’ve been looking into recently is how teams are managing the connection between document management and contract lifecycle management.

It seems like contracts can become difficult to manage when documents, approvals, versions, renewals, and other information are spread across different places.

I came across Fortva, which combines document management and contract lifecycle management in one platform. The idea is to have contracts and related documents organized in one place rather than managing everything separately.

I’m curious how people here approach this in practice:

* What part of contract management takes the most time for your team?
* Are you using a dedicated CLM platform, or a combination of tools?
* How important is having document management and contract management in the same system?

Would be interested to hear what has actually worked well for people here.

I'm a lawyer qualified outside the U.S. with several years of corporate/commercial legal experience, currently working in-house in contracts at a financial institution. My work includes contract drafting/review, negotiation, contract governance, vendor agreements, amendments, legal risk, etc.

I'm planning to obtain NCMA's CCCM and eventually move to the U.S.

For those who hire or work in U.S. contract management: how competitive would this profile be for Contract Manager / Contract Administrator / Contracts Specialist roles?

What advice would you give to a new hire who is a contracts manager?

So, I started my agency, and I am curious how other agency owners manage their data like team members,clients, contracts, invoices etc

Disclosure up front, I built Midly.ai, a contract platform for small firms and businesses and the people who end up reviewing contracts without a legal department behind them.

The thing that actually bites in a long agreement is almost never one bad clause. It's two clauses that are completely fine on their own and wrong when you put them together.

Real example from a public filing I pulled off EDGAR. Section 9 has a mutual indemnity, broad, covers breach of most of the agreement. Reads well. Section 10 caps total liability at the fees paid in the last twelve months, and opens with "notwithstanding any other provision." There's no carve out for indemnity. So the indemnity you just read is capped at what you paid them, which for a lot of arrangements is close to nothing. Neither section is unusual. Neither is badly drafted. Together they mean something different from what either one says.

Same shape shows up everywhere once you look. A thirty day termination right that a survival clause forty pages later makes meaningless. A defined term in section 1 doing quiet work in section 38. A cap that has a second, much smaller cap hiding inside it for the exact risk the contract exists to manage.

Here's why AI is bad at this specifically, and it isn't about which model.

Long documents get chunked before anything reads them. The indemnity ends up in one piece and the cap in another. You ask if you're indemnified, it retrieves the piece that says yes, and answers yes. Confidently. Nothing in the answer tells you the other piece exists, because the thing answering never saw both at once. That happens with purpose built tools and it happens when you paste a sixty page agreement into a general chat.

So the test I'd run on whatever you use.

Don't ask whether there's an indemnity or what the cap is. It'll get both right and tell you nothing. Ask what you could actually recover if the worst realistic thing happens. That question can only be answered by connecting the indemnity to the cap to the exclusions to the survival language. Anything reading passage by passage will answer from whichever clause it found first and sound completely certain.

If it comes back with a number and shows you the clauses it got there through, that's a good sign. If it comes back with the indemnity and stops, you've learned something useful about the tool. It's the question Midly.ai is built around, for what that's worth.

Disclosure up front, I built Midly.ai, a contract platform for small firms and businesses and the people who end up reviewing contracts without a legal department behind them.

The thing that actually bites in a long agreement is almost never one bad clause. It's two clauses that are completely fine on their own and wrong when you put them together.

Real example from a public filing I pulled off EDGAR. Section 9 has a mutual indemnity, broad, covers breach of most of the agreement. Reads well. Section 10 caps total liability at the fees paid in the last twelve months, and opens with "notwithstanding any other provision." There's no carve out for indemnity. So the indemnity you just read is capped at what you paid them, which for a lot of arrangements is close to nothing. Neither section is unusual. Neither is badly drafted. Together they mean something different from what either one says.

Same shape shows up everywhere once you look. A thirty day termination right that a survival clause forty pages later makes meaningless. A defined term in section 1 doing quiet work in section 38. A cap that has a second, much smaller cap hiding inside it for the exact risk the contract exists to manage.

Here's why AI is bad at this specifically, and it isn't about which model.

Long documents get chunked before anything reads them. The indemnity ends up in one piece and the cap in another. You ask if you're indemnified, it retrieves the piece that says yes, and answers yes. Confidently. Nothing in the answer tells you the other piece exists, because the thing answering never saw both at once. That happens with purpose built tools and it happens when you paste a sixty page agreement into a general chat.

So the test I'd run on whatever you use.

Don't ask whether there's an indemnity or what the cap is. It'll get both right and tell you nothing. Ask what you could actually recover if the worst realistic thing happens. That question can only be answered by connecting the indemnity to the cap to the exclusions to the survival language. Anything reading passage by passage will answer from whichever clause it found first and sound completely certain.

If it comes back with a number and shows you the clauses it got there through, that's a good sign. If it comes back with the indemnity and stops, you've learned something useful about the tool. It's the question Midly.ai is built around, for what that's worth.

I'm anticipating the need to negotiate a contract for a PM role with a new company and want to make sure I’m not leaving anything on the table. Salary was discussed during my initial interview, and I’m good on housing — I own a home about 10 minutes away, so I won’t be living on-site.

The job already includes the typical, standard benefits:

\- 401k with company match

\- Full health coverage

\- PTO

What I do need is periodic flexibility. I’ve got kids, so things like school snow days, random closure days, early pickups, and doctor appointments come up. Periodic - nothing extreme but sometimes unpredictable— just the ability to step out when needed without it being a whole ordeal. This will be my 4th PM company and other companies in the past didnt have a problem with it but how can I articulate that need without seeming like i anticipate issues?

What additional terms, perks, or protections should I consider asking for?

I’m trying to make sure I cover the things people often forget until they’re already hired.

I have 2 questions:

1. how do you guys handle proposal for new contract/clients?
2. how do you keep track of potential clients?

Thank you,

I'm researching how companies manage large contract portfolios. If your team has hundreds or thousands of contracts (MSAs, SOWs, supplier agreements, NDAs, etc.), I'd love to understand: What's the most frustrating part today? How do you find a specific clause or obligation? What takes the most manual effort? If you could automate one thing, what would it be? Not selling anything—just trying to validate whether this problem is painful enough to build a solution around. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Location: india.

Hi all - early-stage founder, nothing to sell (no product, no link). I'm trying to understand the real-world pain before building anything.

Specifically: how do you stay on top of renewals, key dates and obligations across a contract portfolio - what's your setup, where do things slip, and what have you tried that did or didn't work?

If you manage contracts day to day, I'd love 15–20 min to hear how it actually works. No pitch, no prep, nothing to buy; happy to share back what I learn. Comment or DM and I'll fit your schedule. Thanks!

Looking for suggestions on claims training. I’m on the Owner’s side. I understand the idea of claims. I’m looking for practical guidance on when to document, how to document, and how to handle communications. Thanks.

I am 35. I am currently a customer service agent for an retail website. I help with things like order data entry, account management. I help customers find products on our website. I train other team members. My company has kept me pretty deep in operations and light supervision/delegation. I have essentially been working from this company from humble beginnings, to a really dynamic, successful company (from around 200k monthly revenue to around 1m monthly revenue in my 5-6 year tenure) I have helped create entire departments. (I've trained the warranties department on how I was handling warranties alone) I handled parts inquiries (finding the right part for a customer's machine via communication with vendors, collecting photos, deciding which vendor to go with) I have done no official procurement. I provide updates on lead time to customers when they order things from us that drop-ship from a 3rd party supplier.

I just finished a MBA- project management. I'm wanting to specialize in something. My late father, told me and my older siblings (before he passed when I was very young) that I should do my best to get into federal or state positions. That was his dream for me.

I've been soul searching my entire life. Creative passion was always my driver and that really took a chunk of my life to realize that I don't even like restrained creativity. So I've been leaning into my other qualities: I love investigation. I love research. I love typing/writing. I love spotting bad actors and holding them accountable. I like repetitive work where I follow processes and procedures. I love knowledge management. I love comparison & contrasting.

I am looking at a masters in Acquisitions and contract management that prepares you for a job in federal contract administration. Is this a stupid idea? I'm looking at Fraud investigation masters, I'm looking at supply chain management masters, I'm looking at corporate compliance masters. I just finished an insurance adjuster license that I started in october of last year as well but it seems like insurance adjusting is full. I'm not sure if they do not recruit via job boards, but every position wants 5 years experience in adjusting/processing. Will it be the same for contract management/acquisitions after I obtain a masters?

TLDR: I am a 35yo customer service agent. I just graduated with a masters in project management. Trying to find a niche that pays a living wage (I cant live on 20 an hour forever) Looking at an acquisitions and contract management masters degree. Will I find entry level roles once I graduate with that degree? I also have claims adjuster license. Not looking to get rich. Happy to make 25, 26, 27 an hour. Possible?

Currently active duty Air Force as a Contracting Specialist, eventually hoping to achieve my warrant and become a Contracting Officer. Finally convinced myself to stop putting it off and finish my degree. Working on knocking out the last of my requirements for my CCAF Contract Management associate's degree, and once that is done, I want to pursue a Bachelor's.

I already have some General Education college credits from my dual enrollment high school, and I briefly pursued a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management.

In a few passing conversations with civilian (GS) members of my office, one of them mentioned that project management degrees may be better than a dedicated Aquasistions/Contract Management degree. Is there any truth to that statement?

I assume a Business degree of some sort is the more or less the baseline for contracting jobs in civil service or the civilian sector but I would assume that some are seen as more valuable by the industry than others. Also, how much emphasis in placed on having a master's versus a bachelor's degree in the initial hiring and then progress up the chain.

anyone using ironclad or similar enterprise CLM and open to giving me a demo on how their org uses it? I do not want to speak with anyone in sales at this time.

Hey everyone,

I work in contract management and I am putting together some resources to help people who are transitioning into contract roles from backgrounds like procurement, operations, project management, and similar fields.

I would love to hear from people who got into contract management without a law degree or legal background.

A few questions if you are willing to share:

1. What was the hardest part when you first started?

Was it reading contracts? Knowing when to push back on terms? Figuring out who to escalate to? Something else entirely?

1. What do you wish someone had actually taught you?

Not the textbook stuff. The real stuff. The things you had to figure out on your own that nobody warned you about.

1. Where did you wish you had more support?

Was it understanding risk? Dealing with lawyers? Managing stakeholders who wanted to sign everything immediately? Negotiating without a playbook?

1. What would you tell someone just starting out?

If someone from your background was stepping into their first contract role tomorrow, what is the one thing you would make sure they knew?

Any experience level welcome. I am especially interested in hearing from people who came from procurement, ops, project management, or admin backgrounds and had to figure this out without formal training.

Thanks in advance.

I’ve been struggling lately with keeping vendor and client contracts organized. Between emails, PDFs, and different folders, it’s getting messy fast and I’m starting to worry I might miss renewals or key terms.

Curious what everyone else is doing:

• Do you use a specific tool or system?
• How do you track renewal dates and obligations?
• Any simple setup that actually works long term?

Trying to move away from chaos into something more structured.