Other Consultants
Your company may have the occasion to employ other consultants in its lifetime. You should perform some measure of diligence on the consultants. Legitimate consultants will gladly provide you with a list of client references and share examples of their prior work. If anyone is doing creative work for your company, it is advisable to have a provision in the contract that their product is work for hire, so there is no question of ownership upon completion.
Most consultants will ask you to enter into a written agreement for their services. It is important to you that the agreement contains specific deliverables and a time period in which the deliverables are to be accomplished. Too many consulting agreements have extremely vague or general deliverables that bring no real substance or true value to the company. There are exceptions. Some well-known consultants are available to counsel with your company but do not provide reports or other deliverables—their advice
Alone is what they are selling. The agreement with the consultant is a contract that needs a legal review by company counsel.
