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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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Upcoming Event: Tech Enabled Lawyer: Real Talk (Melbourne)

Coming up on Tuesday 21st of March 2023, Verity will join Fiona McLay, Principal Lawyer & Consultant at McLay Legal and author of the Tech Enabled Lawyer for a FREE in-person informative and practical session on everything legal business and tech.

This session is hosted by Centre of Legal Innovation. Verity will also be joined by Emma Maxwell, Director and Family Lawyer, Anchored Family Law and Laura Vickers, Director + Principal Lawyer, Nest Legal.

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Building the Fair Term Checker App Part 5

In part 5, Verity will talk about the user experience and copywriting behind the Fair Term Checker. We wanted to make the app was friendly and conversational, so we've structured it in a way that allows users to answer questions a few at a time. This helps to structure their thinking and prevent them from getting distracted by other details.

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Building the Fair Term Checker App Part 1

Hello and welcome to Verity’s latest series of Clause Play videos! Today, we’re going to explore how to create legal bots and automation tools using a mind map. Our founder and chief contract enthusiast, Verity White, uses a platform called Coggle to create flexible mind maps that she can modify as needed.

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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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