Website Terms vs Client Service Terms… What's the difference? Is there any? Can't we all just get long? Let’s break it down.

Mira had invested in professionals to design her website and write her copy, but her contracts had been lower on her priority list. After two successful years in business, she knew it was time to level up her contracts to reflect her professionalism. Mira’s challenge to Verity was to design contracts that would flex with her business reinvention and reflect her unique way of ‘doing business’ with clients.

How would you like to have a speed date with your business contracts? This month at The Commons South Yarra, Verity White is bringing her legal know-how to town for her members-only Lunch and Learn debut.

Highs and lows from a year of learning. It was a crisp October morning in 2021 when I entered my co-working space for the first time as a self-employed business owner. Sure, I had been ‘side hustling’ for a long time already. Writing blogs, speaking at conferences and then in April 2020, starting a side hobby law firm.

When you first start up a company, it is exciting just to get started and make that first sale! You might make something or set up a service for a friend and just start selling it straightaway under your own name. Eventually, you might start thinking about getting a business name, a formal business number, and other kinds of company structures.

If you’re building a marketing list and collecting names, email addresses, and other personal information, you need a privacy policy and you need a plan on how you manage that information.

Selling your products and services is obviously an important part of every business. You do the work, you want to get paid. So, you need terms and conditions tailored for your online business and delivering services virtually. Your documents and processes should be optimised online.

When you’ve done the work, you should get paid. It’s as simple as that. If you want to get paid quicker, this article will show you how to: Build a solid payment structure into your daily business habits, Use proven psychology for following up on late payments, Fire off a payment demand letter that gets $25,000+ results within days (get the template version here) and Increase the chances of your invoices getting paid on time with three easy to implement ideas.

In this instalment of our Client Stories series, we catch up with content creation powerhouse Jane Cavanagh from Jane Cavanagh Flute School and discuss how Verity and Checklist Legal helped create contracts for her business.

Our Founder & Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White joined the incredible Sheree Rubinstein for One Roof’s Rooftop Talks Instagram Live Series. Verity and Sheree had a fun conversation about; the origins of Verity’s passion for contract innovation and taking Checklist Legal from a side hustle blog to a legal firm simplifying contracts with automation

In this instalment of our Client Stories series, we catch up with the innovative Legal Legend Nat Bryant, General Counsel at Sharesies, who is innovating legal services in her small but might legal team.

In this instalment of our Client Stories series, we catch up with Bronwyn from Promoloco, who is shaking up the world of promotional merchandise for the better.

Like many small business owners, Bronwyn Smith of Promoloco has a close working relationship with her customers. She initially ran her business on trust, but is now protected by a Checklist legal set of service conditions and privacy policy. Having collaborated with Bron on our gorgeous client gifts and Checklist Legal merch, we’re happy to confirm that despite leveling up her legal protection, she hasn’t lost any of the personalised spirit of her business approach!

Our Founder Verity White is excited to talk all things inclusion, equity, equality and empowerment with Lizzy Kuoth, Sally Guyer, and Bernadette Bulacan on the panel for WCC International Women’s Day Inspiring Women 2022.

Verity joined Michelle Newell from The Storytelling Biz interviewed on Instagram Live recently all about Checklist Legal’s own brand refresh and how she incorporates branding into contracts for her clients.

Details for Verity White and Melanie Thomas's Contract Design Workshop event. A workshop to help lawyers and designers understand more about each other’s role in their industry.

Whilst it sounds romantic to quit your job and start building your own business empire, in reality it can take time and patience to replace your full time income. It’s daunting to quit your job, regardless of whether you love it or hate it.

It’s a sensible step where you can plan and develop your ideas and audience before you take the plunge into your own business. There are some big pitfalls to keep in mind as you build up the lady boss business of your dreams, while still working your nine to five.

Why waste a lot of time for no reason, right?

Those terms and conditions on a similar business’ website looks like they should be okay… Their business is fairly similar to yours…. Why not just copy and paste them, and change the business name?

There are a few good reasons why this is not a clever idea.