A common question which clients ask is “What is an escrow service, and what do they do?” The concept of an escrow service is both simple, and quite complicated. Put simply, an escrow service is a third party who holds onto source code when you have a software licencing situation. But...

There are plenty of lawyers who, while exceptional at their jobs, are not specialist IT lawyers. This is a niche market and it has the potential to be very tricky if done wrong. In a big company with dozens of lawyers, there may be only two or three who have...

News.com.au: Malcolm Turnbull has launched an aggressive campaign to combat hackers and promote online security - a move that's also being seen as having economic benefits. It's been likened to the 'slip-slop-slap' campaign to prevent skin cancer. "Cyber security would be an economic asset, along the same lines as trusted justice...

A good contract can save time and money on even the most basic issues. However, they are at their most important when the big things need to be worked out and agreed upon. One problem is that there is often not a consensus as to what the big things could...

There is a lot more to a good contract than just a dotted line to sign on. And there is a lot of information that a specialist IT contract requires which traditional contracts don’t. Here are some of the most important aspects that your IT contract should cover. What is...