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Are electronic signatures valid?
Gain a deeper understanding of electronic signatures and empower yourself to make informed decisions in the realm of digital contracts.
Do you need a Fair Terms Officer?
Is a 'Fair Terms Officer' your new business bestie (and first line of defence against multi-million dollar penalties!) 🦸🏼♀️
In the world of business, we have dedicated officers for operations, first aid, privacy, and more. But get ready for a new addition to the team – the Fair Terms Officer!
With expanding laws and growing penalties for unfair contract terms in Australia and globally, having someone to ensure fairness in your contracts and business dealings is becoming essential.
Innovation Services
At Checklist Legal, we love seeing the smiles and nods and happiness of our clients when we create amazing legal experiences!
We are passionate about re-designing legal services to decrease stress for legal teams and improve outcomes for users. After years of trial and error, we’ve developed some specialised packages to help businesses, legal teams, compliance teams and all legal professionals improve their legal services.
Clause Play Episode 02: My Legal Service Conditions Old v New Walkthrough
In episode two of Clause Play Verity takes you through her own award winning Service Conditions and compares her 2020 and 2022 documents.
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.
In-House Practice: The Secrets to Success
Verity White will be chairing an upcoming virtual workshop for Leo Cussen Centre of Law. Coming up Thursday 17th of November Verity will be joining a lineup of legal professionals to present a workshop on gaining confidence and how to hit the ground running when starting out as an in-house lawyer. The following legends in law will be sharing insights and tips from their own experiences.
Upcoming Event: In-House Lawyers Intensive
Our Founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White will be joining Leo Cussen, Centre of Law for their upcoming In-House Lawyers Intensive Event. Verity will be hosting a session on E-signatures & Smart Contracts-Risks and Benefits.
100 ways to improve your contracts
Whether your contracts are B2B or for consumers; internal for employees or external for millions of customers, there are lots of ways and even more reasons to improve your contracts for speed, efficiency, values, and client centricity. Here’s my list of 100 ways you can improve your contracts.
Event - Crafty Counsel - Talking conscious contracting with Crafty Innovates
Our founder Verity White talks to the wonderful Crafty Innovates community from Crafty Counsel about Conscious Contracting(™) and the potential impact of this innovative contracting approach for in house practice.
The Legal 500's Guide to AUSTRALIA'S RISING STARS
Verity White is a multi talented legal counsel within enterprise consumer contracting at Telstra, supporting large “whole of business” tenders for some of the largest Australian banks and other service providers. She is a specialist in small business transformation, and is guiding the small business team through a tumultuous period of change in the market and in the organisation to open a new external sales channel and work to support and develop a brand new premier business channel for Telstra’s increasingly sophisticated small business customers.
AUSTRALIA: RISING STARS 2019 > AUSTRALIA
Our founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White was delighted to be included in the 2019 Rising stars by GC Power List. Here’s the entry…
Designing contracts for yes
How to create contracts clients want to sign.
If I could have one birthday wish (yes… it is my birthday today!), it would be that everyone who writes contracts tries hard to make them readable and understandable. It’s more important now than ever that our contracts are clear, actionable, user-focused, and automated. It was an absolute delight contributing a chapter to Juro’s Modern Contract Handbook