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Upcoming Event: Contract Design Roundtable (Auckland)

Look out Auckland, it’s time for Legal Design!

What to expect:

🔸 Small group discussion with some of the best creative minds in contracting

🔸 Insights into comic contracting, large scale contract design projects, and using AI for contracting

🔸 Lots of fun and new legal design friends!

More details: https://checklistlegal.typeform.com/events

Event Details

📅 Date: Wednesday, 31 May 202

⏰ Time: TBC

📍 Location: TBC

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Upcoming Event: Contract Design Roundtable (Wellington)

Look out Wellington, it’s time for Legal Design!

What to expect:

🔸 Small group discussion with some of the best creative minds in contracting

🔸 Insights into comic contracting, large scale contract design projects, and using AI for contracting

🔸 Lots of fun and new legal design friends!

More details: https://checklistlegal.typeform.com/events

Event Details

📅 Date: Tuesday, 30 May 202

⏰ Time: TBC

📍 Location: TBC

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Upcoming Event: Contract Design Workshop: Fair Terms Special (Sydney)

A special *fair terms* edition of our popular hands-on contract design workshop.... Excited to deliver this one in real life in Sydney!

📅 Date: Wed, 3 May 2023

⏰ Time: 6pm for 6.10pm start

📍 Location: The Commons, George Street, Sydney

What to expect:

🔸 A fun, hands-on workshop that equips you with the skills to make your contracts easy-to-read and understand

🔸 Insights into the updated Unfair Contract Terms laws and how contract design can help

🔸 CPD Points (1 x Practice Management and 1 x Professional Skills)

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Upcoming Event: Contract Design Roundtable (Perth)

Look out Western Australia, it’s time for Legal Design!

What to expect:

🔸 Small group discussion with some of the best creative minds in contracting

🔸 Insights into comic contracting, large scale contract design projects, and using AI for contracting

🔸 Lots of fun and new legal design friends!

More details: https://checklistlegal.typeform.com/events

Event Details

📅 Date: Thu, 20 April 2023

⏰ Time: TBC

📍 Location: TBC

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Legal Innovation & Tech Festival

Our Founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White has been working with the Legal Innovation & Tech Festival for many years now. Here are some of her Contract Design Presentations, Tips and Resources from Legal Tech Fest.

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Re-designing contracts for readability, usability, and trust

Do you have a contract you hate working with? Do you get complaints about how long the contracting process takes? If you aren’t proud of your contracts, you can change them! You can re-design contracts to help better achieve your organisation’s strategy and reduce real business risks (instead of using the same old precedents!).

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Legalpreneurs Expo - Law Institute of Victoria Careers Week 2021

The Law Institute of Victoria Legal Innovation and Technology Committee in conjunction with PEXA present the ‘Legalpreneurs Expo’ to inspire and educate legal professionals and law students on the ever growing ways to embed legal innovation in your career. Verity White joined this Panel Discussion event, along with Tom Dreyfus and Sam Flynn from Josef and Eric Chin from Alpha Creates.

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What's Your Legal Tech Type?

Ever wonder where your tech abilities sit in relation to other lawyers? Find out what your legal tech type is and then increase your tech-knowledge-y (see what we did there?) with some tailored tech homework.

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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.

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