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Welcome to the Checklist Legal blog, your comprehensive hub for transforming your legal challenges into strategic opportunities. As a B Corp certified law firm, we blend our commitment to commercial law, contract simplification, and legal innovation with a passion for creating a fair and equitable business environment.

Join us as we create ripples of change in the world of contracts and business.

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What went wrong with your last innovation project…

Discover the Design Pyramid, a powerful framework that sheds light on the challenges faced in innovation, transformation, and digitisation projects. From Information Design to System Design, this blog explores each layer of the pyramid, offering insights and examples on how to address complexities and achieve success in legal innovation endeavours.

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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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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

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Ep11 How to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract – the high level process for creating a powerfully productive contract

Time to make your contract process more productive. This is the episode that puts together all the previous episodes and ideas into one full process overview… We run through the four big Secrets of Productive Contracts. We step through six steps of how to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract™  which makes use of those four contract secrets

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