Northstar Meetings Group

A Deep Dive Into Attrition and Cancellation

Join Northstar's longtime legal expert in a discussion of how current events are affecting these important event contract clauses.

This webinar took place on July 23, 2025

Changing attendance numbers, questions about international travel, fluctuating pricing — these are just some of the factors playing into changes that planners are having to make to their supplier contracts this year. It's natural to have questions, and Jonathan T. Howe, Northstar's longtime legal expert, has answers to share.

Among the topics to be discussed:

  • Contract ramifications from political policy changes
  • When (and how) to renegotiate your contracts without burning bridges
  • Managing constant price changes
  • Solutions to attrition troubles stemming from current travel trends

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Earns 1 Hour of CMP Credit
 

SPEAKER


Jonathan T. Howe

President and Senior and Founding Partner of Howe and Hutton, Ltd

Jonathan T. Howe, Esq., is president and senior and founding partner of Howe & Hutton Ltd., headquartered in Chicago. The longtime legal expert and columnist for Meetings & Conventions, he has written hundreds of articles and papers on hospitality and meetings, and has spoken to organizations all over the world.

He is also general counsel to Meeting Professionals International, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Association Committee of 100, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association and the International Live Events Association, as well as the special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel. Howe was named the inaugural recipient of the Hospitality Industry Attorneys of the Year by the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys. As an adjunct professor, he has taught courses in association management and hospitality industry law at Roosevelt and DePaul Universities.

MODERATOR


Sarah J.F. Braley

Managing editor, Northstar Meetings Group

Sally oversees content on Northstar’s meetings-related websites, as well as the print edition of Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings, along with covering key beats. Sally joined M&C in 1994 as a senior editor, after spending eight years at New Jersey Monthly magazine.

She holds a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in Journalism (with minors in French, Greek and psychology) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.


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