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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.
In-House Leaders 2020
Verity White was featured in The Lawyer Magazine’s In House Leader feature in her role as Legal Counsel for Telstra.
Top 10 questions to ask your lawyer
What to ask your lawyer and what to expect to make the most of legal advice
Whether you chose to work with Checklist Legal or someone else, it is useful to understand the kinds of information a lawyer will ask you about. And perhaps even more importantly, be ready to ask the lawyer some key questions yourself!
The Legal 500's Guide to AUSTRALIA'S RISING STARS
Verity White is a multi talented legal counsel within enterprise consumer contracting at Telstra, supporting large “whole of business” tenders for some of the largest Australian banks and other service providers. She is a specialist in small business transformation, and is guiding the small business team through a tumultuous period of change in the market and in the organisation to open a new external sales channel and work to support and develop a brand new premier business channel for Telstra’s increasingly sophisticated small business customers.
AUSTRALIA: RISING STARS 2019 > AUSTRALIA
Our founder and Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White was delighted to be included in the 2019 Rising stars by GC Power List. Here’s the entry…
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.
Book Review: Stories for Work by Gabrielle Dolan
What do I think about Stories for work by Gabrielle Dolan?
4 top tips for a legally savvy side hustle
Whilst it sounds romantic to quit your job and start building your own business empire, in reality it can take time and patience to replace your full time income. It’s daunting to quit your job, regardless of whether you love it or hate it.
It’s a sensible step where you can plan and develop your ideas and audience before you take the plunge into your own business. There are some big pitfalls to keep in mind as you build up the lady boss business of your dreams, while still working your nine to five.
Can you copy terms and conditions for your business from another website?
Why waste a lot of time for no reason, right?
Those terms and conditions on a similar business’ website looks like they should be okay… Their business is fairly similar to yours…. Why not just copy and paste them, and change the business name?
There are a few good reasons why this is not a clever idea.
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?
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.
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.