Are you ready for a different kind of contract?
Your go-to contract enthusiasts
We’re Checklist Legal, a digital law firm here to help you craft delightful legal documents designed to support your business growth. Why? Because we want to create a world where female founders and leaders aren’t held back by the indecision or overwhelm caused by complex, confusing contracts.
Who we help
Tailored, practical, legal services to support women in business.
Passionate, service-based businesses
We help ambitious female founders to simplify their legal documents, protect their business, and attract their dream clients with savvy legal systems.
In-house legal team and professionals
We support in-house legal legends to streamline their processes, automate ongoing tasks and make legal innovation a reality to work smarter, not harder.
Meet Verity
Hey there! I’m Verity, the Founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast here at Checklist Legal.
I’m a commercial lawyer turned legal innovation expert with a passion for redesigning legal documents, contracts and processes to be easy to read, easy to use and jargon-free. Oh, and I make a delightful Margarita cocktail, too.
And when I’m not helping female founders put the fun back into their legal documents, I’m teaming up with in-house legal legends to automate their workflows, digitise and transform their legal operations.
Ready to craft contracts your clients will love?
Legal advice that you can *actually* use AND understand
We make chatting legals fun, empowering and stress-free. We offer tailored packages that fit your business (not the other way around) and keep legal lingo to a minimum out of the conversation so you know exactly what we’re talking about every step of the way.
Practical
We take the time to understand you… That includes your businesses’ mission, vision, and values and we use this to craft bespoke legal documents to support you now and into the future.
Serious fun
The law and business are serious, but we believe you can still have fun along the way to clever, clear contract design.
We see the big picture
We don’t just deliver contracts, our contracts help give you back time in your day and streamline your processes so you can grow and scale with confidence.
We fit you
We know your business changes, which is why we give you the tools and guidance to allow your contracts and processes to grow with you.
What people say about us
"Verity made the whole process of writing my terms and privacy policy interesting, and actually fun! "
Jane Cavanagh, Flute School
"Verity always had time for me throughout the process and has delivered a set of documents that I'm not just confident with but I'm proud to use."
Bronwyn Smith, Promoloco Founder
"Entertaining and engaging presentation with real valuable insight. Thanks"
Attendee feedback, Legal Innovation & Tech Fest
"Verity led our legal team through the creation of an automated confidentiality agreement package for our business.
The end-result is on-brand and super intuitive and will save loads of legal hours!"
Kirsten Porter, Graduate Lawyer Sharesies Limited
"I was surprised at how easy the whole process was. She's a fantastic lawyer, with such a friendly approach. I have started recommending her to anyone and everyone!"
Jane Cavanagh, Flute School
"... after years of not feeling confident with my service agreements and terms ... negative experiences in the past when discussing the legal needs of my business with other lawyers but Verity made everything simple and a positive experience."
Bronwyn Smith, Promoloco Founder
"Verity helped me to feel confident in knowing I was legally covered with my website terms, privacy policy and service terms."
Kate Harris, Founder
"I not only learned a lot in the process, but was really impressed with her focus on customer service and on creating plain language contracts that are easy to use and understadn for everyone involved."
Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, Director at Mind Your Way
"...incredily thoughtful, caring, and lots of fun to work with."
Natalie Bryant, General Counsel at Sharesies Limited
"Thank you Verity and the team at Checklist Legal for empowering me with my new contracts, terms and policies. Thanks to you, I can now take on the world."
Bronwyn Smith, Promoloco Founder
"Verity is incredible to work with. She is an amazing listener and I always delight in how she brings to life ideas and solving problems"
Natalie Bryant, General Counsel at Sharesies Limited
"I had so much fun drafting today - and I was helped along by your tools and ideas. So from me and my internal clients - thank yuo thank you thank you!"
Helen Carr, Senior Legal Counsel at MYOB
"The Contract Design Workshop was brilliant! Definitely worth the time to invest in the design aspects of our contracts."
Kate Sherburn, Head Legal Beagle at Who Gives A Crap
"Very talented presenter and some terrific tips for plain English communication."
Attendee feedback, Legal Innovation & Tech Fest
"Finding someone like Verity to help me bring life to ideas and develop frameworks and systems for the legal team to use has been an absolute joy"
Natalie Bryant, General Counsel at Sharesies Limited
"Verity is very knowledgeable, amazing person to work with and makes the whole process simple and easy... both for you as the owner plus for your clients."
Kate Harris, Founder
"Using your Contract Design Canvas & inspired by your book... I spent today re-writing a hideous, much loathed template contract. It's gone from 18 pages of hideous jargon to a total of 7 pages... It's still got some way to go, but I'm so energised by the process!"
Helen Carr, Senior Legal Counsel at MYOB
"Verity is now my go to lawyer and will definitely be working with her again."
Kate Harris, Founder
"Amazing presentation Verity. Insightful, practical and very now.... very useful and informative."
Attendee feedback, Legal Innovation & Tech Fest
"Verity took a lot of time to carefully understand our needs and designed tailored documents that we could seamlessly integrate into our busienss processes. I absolutely recommend working with Verity!"
Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, Director at Mind Your Way
"Really interesting presentation with well researched and challenging content."
Attendee feedback, Legal Innovation & Tech Fest
"Working with Verity on my business's legal documents was fun, pain-free, and instructive!"
Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, Director at Mind Your Way
"The Contract Design Canvas was a really helpful tool. My project purpose included the strech goal of making the sales team love the contract. When I showed the contract to my key internal client, she shrieked with joy"
Helen Carr, Senior Legal Counsel at MYOB
What does a designer think about contracts?
As a creative business owner and definitely not a lawyer… This year I was lucky enough to join
Clause Play Episode 01: Notice Clause
This is the first episode in our new Clause Play video series where we unpack common contract clauses and give tips to help you improve your legal documents.
Canva’s New Text to Image App
We check out Canva’s new Text to Image app and discover how AI is predicting the future of law.
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