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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.

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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.

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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!).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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