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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.
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!).
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.
Practical Tips For Document Automation with Verity White and Tom Dreyfus
Verity joins Josef’s CEO and Co-Founder Tom Dreyfus to discuss about how legal professionals should prep for document automation.
CONTRACT DESIGN WORKSHOP: LET’S CREATE A WORLD WHERE THE LAW MAKES SENSE
Details for Verity White and Melanie Thomas's Contract Design Workshop event. A workshop to help lawyers and designers understand more about each other’s role in their industry.
Delivering Digitisation with Design
Verity White participated in the Altacon 21 Legal Tech Conference and Expo in June 2021 discussing Delivering Digitisation with Design.
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.
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?
Ep12 - Legal Intrapreneur Basics - Live recording from Legal Innovation & Tech Fest (Sydney, 2018)
In this special episode, we go to the Sydney 2018 Legal Innovation and Tech Fest where Verity Presented on Legal Intrapreneur Basics.
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.
Free eBook: Legal Innovation Framework
Trying to do something different in a legal team gets overwhelming.
There’s lots of roadblocks. Heaps of competing priorities. Very little (i.e. zero) budget to spend. And on top of all of these challenges, lawyers are human (believe it or not!) and aren’t known for changing their ways in a hurry.
Ep10 How to map a contract for productivity
Time to make your contract process more productive. On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we look at: How to create a mind map, My favourite application for creating mind maps, How to create process maps for more complicated contracts with lots of moving parts and of course our ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE that we have in every episode for you to try.
Ep09 How to make your contracting process more productive
On this episode of the Checklist Legal Podcast, we look at: Why you have to get your contract process in sync with your contract document, An example of an out of sync, slow process and how process mapping fixed it, Why a visual map of a contract process is so useful, The common culprits of slow contract processes and how to fix them and of course our ACTIONABLE CHALLENGE that we have in every episode for you to try
Ep08 Is it time lawyers lose the legalese?
On this episode, we look at the SLAPP test. This test gives some key tactics we can use to improve the productivity of the contract document.We’ll cover: Academic studies showing the effectiveness of visual contract elements, The picture superiority effect, Why easy to read is easy to like and Contract formatting tips.
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.
Ep07 SLAPP your contract into shape: The SLAPP test for productive contracts
On this episode, we look at the SLAPP test. This test gives some key tactics we can use to improve the productivity of the contract document. We’ll cover: • Academic studies showing the effectiveness of visual contract elements • The picture superiority effect • Why easy to read is easy to like • Contract formatting tips