This is a sophisticated template consultant agreement, which may be adapted either to balance the interests of the parties or to favour the interests of one party over the other.
The agreement may be used in relation to the provision of business, management, IT and other consultancy services.
In addition to the clauses in the "standard" version of the consultancy agreement, this "premium" consultant agreement includes: provisions on interpretation, a simple acceptance procedure, hourly-rate charging, variation of charges, more sophisticated IPR provisions allowing for third party rights, customer materials, moral rights and partial assignments/licences, more comprehensive limitations of liability, indemnities, mutual (rather than unilateral) confidentiality provisions, data protection provision, non-solicitation clauses, notices clauses, and more detailed boilerplate clauses.
In full, this template consultant agreement contains these clauses:
> Definitions and interpretation
> Engagement
> Duties of the Consultant
> Acceptance
> Charges
> Intellectual Property Rights
> Warranties
> Indemnities
> Limitations and exclusions of liability
> Termination
> Effects of termination
> Confidentiality and publicity
> Data protection
> Status of consultant
> Non-solicitation
> Notices
> General
This consultant agreement template is 20 pages long (including the cover page), and is supplied in Word (.doc) format for easy editing. See:
Sample Consultant Agreement
