I have done quite a bit of consulting, but it's all been with ongoing, long-term clients with whom I have a good relationship. I recently was offered a short-term one-off job to do some mod_perl stuff, but with someone with whom I am relatively unfamiliar.

Rather than just a purely informal verbal agreement, due to the informational asymmetries I am faced with I would like to ask the client to sign a contract but I hardly know where to start. I certainly don't want to ask the client to sign the kind of voluminous, all-encompassing contract I have worked with in the past.

Can any monks offer a link to or an example of a good, fair contract which is tailored to simple one-off programming projects?

In reply to Consulting contracts by Starky

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