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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)
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
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.
Mira Claudia Client Case Study
Mira had invested in professionals to design her website and write her copy, but her contracts had been lower on her priority list. After two successful years in business, she knew it was time to level up her contracts to reflect her professionalism. Mira’s challenge to Verity was to design contracts that would flex with her business reinvention and reflect her unique way of ‘doing business’ with clients.
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.
Building the Fair Term Checker App Part 4
Welcome to episode 4 of Checklist Legal’s series on building a fair terms checker using document assembly technology and chatbots created with the legal tech platform Josef. In this episode, we’ll discuss how to build a well styled, automated document.
Building the Fair Term Checker App Part 3
In part 3 of the Fair Terms Checker video series, Verity White from Checklist Legal discusses the process of building automation and document assembly apps. She recommends using an automation mapper to keep track of the overarching details of the app, such as what documents are involved, what the output is like, and why you would use it.
Building the Fair Term Checker App Part 2
In this second part of the video series, Verity dives into the background of how she built the Fair Term Checker, which assists in-house lawyers in complying with the unfair contract terms laws set to be implemented in Australia in 2023. She explains how she planned out the app using mind mapping tool Coggle and why having a visual flowchart is essential to building a chatbot app.
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.
Who Gives a Crap Case Study
Insights from Kate Sherburn, Legal Beagle (aka head of legal) at Who Gives a Crap
How Checklist Legal co-created Who Gives a Crap’s contracts, and personalised them with their playful DNA.
Innovation Services
At Checklist Legal, we love seeing the smiles and nods and happiness of our clients when we create amazing legal experiences!
We are passionate about re-designing legal services to decrease stress for legal teams and improve outcomes for users. After years of trial and error, we’ve developed some specialised packages to help businesses, legal teams, compliance teams and all legal professionals improve their legal services.
Clause Play Episode 02: My Legal Service Conditions Old v New Walkthrough
In episode two of Clause Play Verity takes you through her own award winning Service Conditions and compares her 2020 and 2022 documents.
What does a designer think about contracts?
In this article, Bronwyn Smith shares what it's been like joining the team at Checklist Legal and becoming the new Creative Projects and Design Manager. Find out what Bronwyn thinks about contracts... As a creative business owner and definitely not a lawyer.
Clause Play Episode 01: Notice Clause
This is the first episode in our new Clause Play video series where we unpack common contract clauses and give tips to help you improve your legal documents.
Canva’s New Text to Image App
Verity White check out Canva’s new Text to Image app and discover how AI is predicting the future of law.
In-House Practice: The Secrets to Success
Verity White will be chairing an upcoming virtual workshop for Leo Cussen Centre of Law. Coming up Thursday 17th of November Verity will be joining a lineup of legal professionals to present a workshop on gaining confidence and how to hit the ground running when starting out as an in-house lawyer. The following legends in law will be sharing insights and tips from their own experiences.
Lunch & Learn at The Commons South Yarra
How would you like to have a speed date with your business contracts? This month at The Commons South Yarra, Verity White is bringing her legal know-how to town for her members-only Lunch and Learn debut.
Happy Lawyer Happy Life Conference 2022
Our founder Verity White will be at the upcoming Happy Lawyer Happy Life Conference in Kingscliff this week and offering a free legal design audit and contract scorecard assessment for those looking to improve their engagement agreement and onboarding process (service valued at $900+).
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.
What I learned from 1-year full time in my own law firm
Highs and lows from a year of learning. It was a crisp October morning in 2021 when I entered my co-working space for the first time as a self-employed business owner. Sure, I had been ‘side hustling’ for a long time already. Writing blogs, speaking at conferences and then in April 2020, starting a side hobby law firm.