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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.
Contract Design Workshop - Fair Terms Special (Melbourne)
A special 'fair terms' contract design workshop
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)
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
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
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)
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
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.
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
Our Founder Verity White is teaching Contract Design for Automation at University of Melbourne
We’re excited to announce our Founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast here at Checklist Legal will be an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Verity will take students through the wonderful world of contract design for automation.
Contract Design Canvas
Introducing the Contract Design Canvas! Recently launched for the first time with the Victorian Society of Computers and the Law…and discussed in brief in Legal Business World. Very keen to hear your thoughts!
Getting ‘Off the Island’: Diary of a Corporate Innovation Masterclass in New York City (Part 1)
3 action-packed days of hands-on corporate innovation masterclass in New York with Giant Innovation. Now I’m back what am I doing differently because of this amazing trip?
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