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<strong>Businesses turn to us because they know our Contract Solutions team fully understands and is singularly focused on the many contours of commercial contracts. We draw on institutional and cutting-edge knowledge as well as deep and diverse experience to draft, review, negotiate and manage a wide array of commercial contracts, day in and day out. Trained in project management and technology, our lawyers provide holistic consulting that helps clients generate and implement optimal ways to institutionally manage their contracts. We provide tailored advice to address specific needs and deliver built-in efficiencies.</strong>

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<p class="wp-block-contentpilot-introduction"><strong>Businesses turn to us because they know our Contract Solutions team fully understands and is singularly focused on the many contours of commercial contracts. We draw on institutional and cutting-edge knowledge as well as deep and diverse experience to draft, review, negotiate and manage a wide array of commercial contracts, day in and day out. Trained in project management and technology, our lawyers provide holistic consulting that helps clients generate and implement optimal ways to institutionally manage their contracts. We provide tailored advice to address specific needs and deliver built-in efficiencies.</strong></p>

<strong>Commercial contracting: That’s what we do – and we do it very well.</strong>

<p class="wp-block-contentpilot-introduction"><strong>Commercial contracting: That’s what we do – and we do it very well.</strong></p>

Offering a Comprehensive Center of Contracting Excellence

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<h2>Offering a Comprehensive Center of Contracting Excellence</h2>

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<ul><li>Supporting clients in every facet of the contracting process.</li><li>Drafting, negotiating and reviewing all types of commercial contracts, including master services, technology, purchase, supply and other agreements.</li><li>Leveraging technology with a cohesive combination of robust proprietary and externally developed tools to ensure high quality and consistency.</li><li>Helping cultivate and maintain strong customer and vendor relationships.</li><li>Creating a customized, comprehensive “playbook,” which ensures consistent ongoing contract management, either by us or the in-house legal team.</li><li>Assisting in many additional areas.</li></ul>

Serving an Array of Industries, Handling a Full Range of Contracts

<h2>Serving an Array of Industries, Handling a Full Range of Contracts</h2>

We partner with businesses of all sizes operating in many different industries, including manufacturing, technology, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, professional services, artificial intelligence and retail.

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<p>We partner with businesses of all sizes operating in many different industries, including manufacturing, technology, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, professional services, artificial intelligence and retail.</p>

Understanding Clients’ Businesses and the Risks They Encounter

<h2>Understanding Clients’ Businesses and the Risks They Encounter</h2>

Our lawyers invest time in understanding our clients’ businesses and goals and the inherent risks to their operations.&nbsp;We create contracts designed to help mitigate these risks while enabling them to operate their business and generate income.&nbsp;We recognize that by getting to a signed agreement faster, we can help our clients build revenue and valued relationships.

<p>Our lawyers invest time in understanding our clients’ businesses and goals and the inherent risks to their operations.&nbsp;We create contracts designed to help mitigate these risks while enabling them to operate their business and generate income.&nbsp;We recognize that by getting to a signed agreement faster, we can help our clients build revenue and valued relationships.</p>

Walking in Clients’ Shoes: Extensive, Hyper-Relevant Experience

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<h2>Walking in Clients’ Shoes: Extensive, Hyper-Relevant Experience</h2>

Most of our Contract Solutions attorneys worked in corporate legal departments before joining Thompson Hine. This experience enables us to understand and adopt the same pragmatic approach to negotiating contracts used by our clients. We recognize the stark difference between struggling under bad agreements and thriving under well-negotiated ones. We relate to the unique pressure in-house lawyers encounter and find it rewarding to lift some of that burden off their shoulders.

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<p>Most of our Contract Solutions attorneys worked in corporate legal departments before joining Thompson Hine. This experience enables us to understand and adopt the same pragmatic approach to negotiating contracts used by our clients. We recognize the stark difference between struggling under bad agreements and thriving under well-negotiated ones. We relate to the unique pressure in-house lawyers encounter and find it rewarding to lift some of that burden off their shoulders.</p>

Fostering External and Internal Collaboration


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<h2>Fostering External and Internal Collaboration</h2>

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<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>We employ a partnership-based approach.</li><li>Our lawyers are in a client’s corner during every stage of the contracting process and beyond.</li><li>We only succeed when our clients succeed.</li><li>We work side by side as a close-knit team.</li><li>We also consult subject-matter experts from different practice groups across our firm.</li></ul>


<ul><li>We employ a partnership-based approach.</li><li>Our lawyers are in a client’s corner during every stage of the contracting process and beyond.</li><li>We only succeed when our clients succeed.</li><li>We work side by side as a close-knit team.</li><li>We also consult subject-matter experts from different practice groups across our firm.</li></ul>

Negotiating Persuasively, Professionally and Personably


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<h2>Negotiating Persuasively, Professionally and Personably</h2>

While our team members advocate vigorously to advance our clients’ best interests, we always strive to cultivate a cooperative atmosphere among all parties around the negotiation table. After all, our overarching goal is to get contracts signed, sealed and delivered and put commerce in motion.

<p>While our team members advocate vigorously to advance our clients’ best interests, we always strive to cultivate a cooperative atmosphere among all parties around the negotiation table. After all, our overarching goal is to get contracts signed, sealed and delivered and put commerce in motion.</p>

Assigning the Right Lawyer Every Time to Ensure Cost-Effective Service


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<h2>Assigning the Right Lawyer Every Time to Ensure Cost-Effective Service</h2>


<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Our team is made up of attorneys at all skill levels, enabling us to efficiently staff each matter; we never overstaff a matter.</li><li>We can assign a junior associate to handle a simple agreement or a straightforward component of a contract and bring in a senior partner to advise on highly complex matters.</li><li>Our team finds and applies efficiencies to streamline our service.</li><li>We provide high-quality legal services efficiently and at reasonable rates.</li></ul>


<ul><li>Our team is made up of attorneys at all skill levels, enabling us to efficiently staff each matter; we never overstaff a matter.</li><li>We can assign a junior associate to handle a simple agreement or a straightforward component of a contract and bring in a senior partner to advise on highly complex matters.</li><li>Our team finds and applies efficiencies to streamline our service.</li><li>We provide high-quality legal services efficiently and at reasonable rates.</li></ul>


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We pride ourselves on our flexibility. We serve businesses that:

<p>We pride ourselves on our flexibility. We serve businesses that:</p>


<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Outsource all or nearly all of their commercial contracts to us.</li><li>Require outside legal and business help for specific types of agreements, such as technology contracts.</li><li>Need our contracting guidance on a particular business project.</li><li>Have extensive legal departments and require overflow support for their in-house teams.</li><li>Need transition coverage; for example, when an employee is on leave or they are in the process of hiring to fill an in-house role.</li></ul>


<ul><li>Outsource all or nearly all of their commercial contracts to us.</li><li>Require outside legal and business help for specific types of agreements, such as technology contracts.</li><li>Need our contracting guidance on a particular business project.</li><li>Have extensive legal departments and require overflow support for their in-house teams.</li><li>Need transition coverage; for example, when an employee is on leave or they are in the process of hiring to fill an in-house role.</li></ul>

To learn more about&nbsp;Contract Solutions, email us at&nbsp;<strong><a href="mailto:Innovation@ThompsonHine.com">Innovation@ThompsonHine.com</a>.</strong>

<p>To learn more about&nbsp;Contract Solutions, email us at&nbsp;<strong><a href="mailto:Innovation@ThompsonHine.com">Innovation@ThompsonHine.com</a>.</strong></p>

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<section class="wp-block-contentpilot-expand-more"><div class="wp-block-contentpilot-expand-more__excerpt is-visible" data-selector="expand-more"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-contentpilot-expand-more__full-content" data-selector="expand-more"><h2>Walking in Clients’ Shoes: Extensive, Hyper-Relevant Experience</h2><p>Most of our Contract Solutions attorneys worked in corporate legal departments before joining Thompson Hine. This experience enables us to understand and adopt the same pragmatic approach to negotiating contracts used by our clients. We recognize the stark difference between struggling under bad agreements and thriving under well-negotiated ones. We relate to the unique pressure in-house lawyers encounter and find it rewarding to lift some of that burden off their shoulders.</p><h2>Fostering External and Internal Collaboration</h2><ul><li>We employ a partnership-based approach.</li><li>Our lawyers are in a client’s corner during every stage of the contracting process and beyond.</li><li>We only succeed when our clients succeed.</li><li>We work side by side as a close-knit team.</li><li>We also consult subject-matter experts from different practice groups across our firm.</li></ul><h2>Negotiating Persuasively, Professionally and Personably</h2><p>While our team members advocate vigorously to advance our clients’ best interests, we always strive to cultivate a cooperative atmosphere among all parties around the negotiation table. After all, our overarching goal is to get contracts signed, sealed and delivered and put commerce in motion.</p><h2>Assigning the Right Lawyer Every Time to Ensure Cost-Effective Service</h2><ul><li>Our team is made up of attorneys at all skill levels, enabling us to efficiently staff each matter; we never overstaff a matter.</li><li>We can assign a junior associate to handle a simple agreement or a straightforward component of a contract and bring in a senior partner to advise on highly complex matters.</li><li>Our team finds and applies efficiencies to streamline our service.</li><li>We provide high-quality legal services efficiently and at reasonable rates.</li></ul><h2>Fulfilling a Variety of Needs</h2><p>We pride ourselves on our flexibility. We serve businesses that:</p><ul><li>Outsource all or nearly all of their commercial contracts to us.</li><li>Require outside legal and business help for specific types of agreements, such as technology contracts.</li><li>Need our contracting guidance on a particular business project.</li><li>Have extensive legal departments and require overflow support for their in-house teams.</li><li>Need transition coverage; for example, when an employee is on leave or they are in the process of hiring to fill an in-house role.</li></ul><p>To learn more about&nbsp;Contract Solutions, email us at&nbsp;<strong><a href="mailto:Innovation@ThompsonHine.com">Innovation@ThompsonHine.com</a>.</strong></p></div><button class="wp-block-contentpilot-expand-more__more-button is-visible" data-selector="expand-more">Show More</button><button class="wp-block-contentpilot-expand-more__less-button" data-selector="expand-more">Show Less</button></section>

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Offering a Comprehensive Center of Contracting Excellence

Serving an Array of Industries, Handling a Full Range of Contracts

Understanding Clients’ Businesses and the Risks They Encounter

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