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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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How to protect your business

When you first start up a company, it is exciting just to get started and make that first sale! You might make something or set up a service for a friend and just start selling it straightaway under your own name. Eventually, you might start thinking about getting a business name, a formal business number, and other kinds of company structures.

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How to get paid quicker: Payment demand emails and letter templates

When you’ve done the work, you should get paid. It’s as simple as that. If you want to get paid quicker, this article will show you how to: Build a solid payment structure into your daily business habits, Use proven psychology for following up on late payments, Fire off a payment demand letter that gets $25,000+ results within days (get the template version here) and Increase the chances of your invoices getting paid on time with three easy to implement ideas.

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World Sustainable Contracting Day 2022

Better contracts, better business, better society.

This month Checklist Legal founder Verity White will be speaking at World Commerce & Contracting event – World Sustainable Contracting Day 2022. This panel will discuss how design and simplification create empowering contracts.

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100 ways to improve your contracts

Whether your contracts are B2B or for consumers; internal for employees or external for millions of customers, there are lots of ways and even more reasons to improve your contracts for speed, efficiency, values, and client centricity. Here’s my list of 100 ways you can improve your contracts.

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Rooftop Talks Series with Verity White and Sheree Rubinstein from One Roof

Our Founder & Chief Contract Enthusiast Verity White joined the incredible Sheree Rubinstein for One Roof’s Rooftop Talks Instagram Live Series. Verity and Sheree had a fun conversation about; the origins of Verity’s passion for contract innovation and taking Checklist Legal from a side hustle blog to a legal firm simplifying contracts with automation

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Client Stories: Bronwyn Smith Founder of Promoloco

In this instalment of our Client Stories series, we catch up with Bronwyn from Promoloco, who is shaking up the world of promotional merchandise for the better.

Like many small business owners, Bronwyn Smith of Promoloco has a close working relationship with her customers. She initially ran her business on trust, but is now protected by a Checklist legal set of service conditions and privacy policy. Having collaborated with Bron on our gorgeous client gifts and Checklist Legal merch, we’re happy to confirm that despite leveling up her legal protection, she hasn’t lost any of the personalised spirit of her business approach!

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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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