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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.
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.
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.
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
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
Plain Language and Government Contracts
Dealing with a tricky government contract you want to simplify? Government lawyers pushing back on your updates to their agreement?
How to Build a Winning Business Case for Legal Innovation
Creating a business case for legal innovation can be a major stumbling block for many legal professionals. In fact, it’s the one step of the legal innovation process that causes most people to come unstuck, not because it’s particularly difficult or time consuming, it’s a problem of translation.
Legal Innovation on a shoestring: How to innovate on a budget
Legal teams must cut costs. But how can you innovate with no time and no money?
In this article, I share some ideas and tips on how to innovate your legal work with little to no extra funding.