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Joelle Steele has been writing and selling contract templates since 1983, online since 1994. All contract templates have been reviewed by an attorney, are legally-binding, easy to use and understand, and come in fully customizable Word docs. Delivered as email attachments within 24 hours, sometimes within minutes. Have questions about any of the standard paragraphs or how to use your template? Download the FREE help PDF book, CONTRACT BASICS. You can also check out the contract advice column and the contracts and law articles. And, of course, please read the client testimonials. Still have questions? Drop a line to joellesteele@joellesteele.com.
NOTICE: All of Joelle Steele's contract templates and the customized ones that you create from them ("derivatives") are protected by U.S. Copyright Law. They are for your own use only — as many times as you need. But, you may NOT give away, distribute, resell, republish in any form, or display the template or the customized contract on any website, including your own.
Consulting Agreement $24.95
• Scope of work, work to be provided
• Worker status, subcontracted work
• Additional services, approval of prior work, confidentiality
• Terms, fees, payment, reimbursables
• Cancellation, notices, indemnification, relief
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Employment Agreement $24.95
• Job duties and description
• Wages, hours of work
• Insurance, vacations, holidays, sick/personal leave
• Performance reviews, terms of employment
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Expert Witness Agreement $24.95
• Services to be provided
• Worker status as independent contractor
• Contingencies, ethics, and confidentiality
• Terms, fees, payment, non-payment, reimbursables
• Severability, termination, indemnification
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Independent Sales Representative Agreement $24.95
• Items and services to be sold
• Optional design and estimating clause
• Sales territory, reports, updates, claims, promises
• Commission rates, schedule, and documentation
• Invoicing, payments, trade secrets, confidentiality
• Non-solicitation, non-competition, worker status
• Indemnification, assignment, termination, small claims, arbitration
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Joint Venture Agreement $24.95
• Members of the venture, place of business
• Term of venture, initial capital, percentage of participation
• Investment and working capital withdrawals
• Accounting, profits and losses, final accounting
• Separation of other enterprises, division of duties and authority
• Withdrawal, death, dissolution, indemnification
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Manufacturing Agreement $24.95
• Product defined, additional products
• Rights, ownership, trade secrets, exclusivity
• Product name, labeling, manufacturer pricing
• Manufacturing, approval of samples, quality control
• Ordering, delays, delivery, returns, liabilities
• Terms, fees, payments, termination
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severity
Non-Disclosure Agreement for Pitching Idea/Invention $24.95
• Purpose of agreement
• Confidential information
• Ownership of information
• Confidentiality
• Term of agreement, attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Partnership Agreement $24.95
• Partnership term, place of business
• Initial capital, capital withdrawals, profits, losses
• Accounting, fiscal year, salaries, draws, net profits
• Time devoted to partnership, management, authority
• Partner withdrawal, option to purchase interest
• Purchase price of partnership interest, death of partner, duties of purchasing partner
• Dissolution, notices, consents, agreements, successors, goodwill, indemnification
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Salesperson Employment Agreement $24.95
• Job description, duties, responsibilities, hours of work
• Hourly pay, commissions, insurance, vacation, holidays, sick/personal leave
• Terms of employment, performance reviews
• Trade secrets, non-solicitation, non competition, injunctive relief
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Subcontractor Agreement $24.95
• Scope of work, additional services
• Title to materials, workmanship, completion, delays
• Licensing, insurance
• Terms, fees, payment, reimbursables, retention, bankruptcy
• Suspension of work, assignment, termination
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability
Trade Secrets Agreement $24.95
• Definition of trade secrets, confidentiality, breach
• Description of trade secrets and information covered
• Optional non-solicitation and non-competition clauses (not enforceable in all states)
• Portfolio documentation, return of company property
• Attorneys fees, jurisdiction, entire agreement, and severability