Hello Andrew

When I worked in industry and had trouble getting contracts signed and have input on everything, I would often request a meeting. It usually wasn’t in person, and that wasn’t necessary anyway. Typically, I would gather a lawyer from my group, my manager (if they were available- optional attendance), and the representative the opposing end who would be responsible for signing, as well as, anyone who they would like to extend the invitation to on their end. Typically, the lawyer, my manager, and myself were live in one room, while their representatives joined on the line, either by video call or telephone dial in. It would still take hours- one time, it took nearly 4 hours of negotiating and discussing back and forth but it was still faster than if we had discussion by e-mail. Other times, we would not be able to meet, whether it was for scheduling conflicts or preference, and we would typically try to use a system that had live editing from both ends with comments- similar to the way that google docs works and this helped speed things along as well.