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Secrets of Productive Contracts (eBook)

Design readable contracts that clients love

Speed up business processes with digital contract design methods and access practical templates designed by a lawyer and automation coach.

Stay ahead
If you don't optimise your business documents for automation, your company will be left behind as contracts & transactions move to the digital world.

Speed to contract
This book helps to increase contract process productivity & get your contracts working for you, not against you.

Optimised for mobility & a digital world
Design contracts your customers can sign on their phone or mobile device. No more scanning, posting, or printing.

Contracts as great as your brand
Stop killing your brand experience with poorly designed documents.

The tactics in this book will help you design contracts clients love.

Is this you right now?

Frustrated with your contracts... the document... the process... the overwhelm... the not knowing where to start...
Your contracts are too loooong and too slooow.

You’d like to improve contracts for your business and your clients, but you don't know where to start.

Customers complain about your contracts

Your working day is swamped with contract administration.

Sales teams blame the legal team or the contract process for lost sales.

You need to get digital contracts working for your business quickly to reduce the need for person to person, paper-based transactions.

Traditional lawyers aren't creative enough to help get documents ready for automation.

Does this sound familiar?

Meet the author

Hi there!

I'm Verity White, a technology lawyer, founder of boutique law firm Checklist Legal and author of Secrets of Productive Contracts.

I wrote this book to help businesses and legal teams struggling with contract problems.

I know lawyers and businesses are smart, they just need some tips and tricks to get started on the road to faster, user-focused contracting.

This book is filled with useful tips and clear methods to improve both your contract document and contract processes. I can't wait to see what you create!

Cheers,
Verity

Imagine all contracts were a delight to read...

Imagine for a moment that all your business contracts were:
  • a delight to read
  • fast to navigate
  • client-friendly
  • useful and usable for lawyers and non-lawyers
  • stress-free to manage
  • ready for electronic signatures
  • optimised for automated workflows
  • not filled with unnecessary terms, pages or process steps
  • ready for paperless offices
  • easy to sign
  • easy to manage and control
  • simple to vary later
  • painless to adjust for different parties
  • futuristic and sexy!

That is the world we want to live in...

How would this free up your time?

How would this decrease your stress and the stress of your team, clients, and customers?

Reviews

Verity writes so effortlessly and it's so easy to read and understand...

Pia, Newtown

...heaps of resources and tools that ... readers [can] easily access, which is such a time saver. 

Fofey, Marcus Beach

Have fun creating agreements!

The tools and techniques in this book will help make drafting contracts enjoyable!

This book isn’t for everyone...

I don’t want you to waste your time (or complain to me!) if this book isn’t the right fit for you.

It takes a special kind of person to try things differently. Lawyers are not known for being early adopters of new technology or innovation.

Never underestimate the resistance to change from lawyers. Even more likely, never underestimate the ability of lawyers to describe virtual status quo efforts as revolutionary change.’  - Stephen Poor

You, your clients, your team, or your business might not be ready to re-design and digitise the way you work. Some people aren’t ready to see contracts differently. In fact, most people don’t like change.

This book is for anyone who is sick of trying to read ugly contracts and tired of the drudgery of contract admin. 

This book is written for: 
  • Lawyers who want to help their business clients grow and sign up clients faster 
  • legal teams in process driven corporations 
  • paralegals putting contracts together solo lawyers at medium sized companies 
  • executive assistants chasing signatures 
  • founders of start-ups and micro-businesses 
  • procurement specialists and contract managers

Basically anyone who interacts with contract processes or documents...

Whatever way you interact with contracts, there are ways to make them more enjoyable, and more productive.

And better yet, you don't need a law degree or expensive consultants or mega bucks for an entire new suite of technology.

To make change happen, you need some tenacity and the desire to do things a bit differently.

If you have a passion for productivity and you’re willing to talk to people about how they use a contract.

If you want faster, fairer contracts that leave your customers with a positive impression.

If you want your contracts to add more value to the business and to smoothly slide through the approvals process.

.…then this book is for you.

Reviews

Simplifies what is otherwise a technically scary process.

Charles Watson

I loved the explanation of the "better way" as part of educating client on what legal and contract design is and its benefits.

Marty Finestone

Free templates & resources

With 'Secrets of Productive Contracts', you also get access to a suite of template contract sections and examples so you can supercharge your contract design project & get online contracts up and running quickly.

Reviews

A great read, full of practical ideas and insights to improve contracts... an enjoyable book for anyone that touches a contract.

Ryan, Mitcham

...highly entertaining... filled with really practical and helpful suggestions. ... easy to understand ... I look forward to being able to put the secrets into practice!.

Lauren, Box Hill

FAQs

What will you need?

To put these contract design methods into action you will need:
  • a desire to live in the future early
  • the ability to encourage people to try new things
  • a computer
  • a writing program (such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs)
  • a short sample contract you want to improve
  • if you want to go digital, access to an electronic signature or automation application (I use various applications, but the principles work for pretty much all e-sig or automation platforms).

Do I need to buy software or sign up to a particular automation platform?

Not at all, no new software required! The methods in this book and the tools will help create usable contracts to wow your customers and boost your productivity, even if you don’t want to go automatic yet. 

This book gives you a kick start towards thinking about contracts digitally to craft contracts that combine management of legal risks with powerful productivity and awesome user experiences.

If you do want to go digital, then the techniques around contract design apply to all contract automation and document assembly platforms.

What kind of contracts can I use contract design methods for?

All kinds of contracts!

Because these contract design methods and Reverse Sandwich Contracting are a way of thinking, not an expensive, bespoke piece of software, the methods apply to all contracts and can help improve any contract in many different ways.

The contract design mindsets and methods in this book have a track record of success with lots of contracts and documents includng:
  • auditing of franchisees
  • consulting agreements
  • performance warning letters
  • franchise agreements
  • marketing services
  • confidentiality agreements
  • letters of intent
  • risk assessments
  • settlement agreements
  • corporate services agreements
  • approval processes
  • letters of consent
  • contract variations
  • wholesale service agreements
  • marketing release forms
  • contract summaries and sign off sheets
  • termination letters
  • terms of settlement and release
… much more!

If you are just starting out, start with a simple letter or agreement and work from there. 

Is this just for simple, basic contracts?

These contract design tools and methods apply to all kinds of contracts.

All contracts – no matter how complex – can benefit from re-design using the methods in this book. 

In fact, more complicated contracts often benefit the most! 

Start small and work your way up to the big ones!

100% money-back guarantee

We are so confident the techniques in 'Secrets of Productive Contracts' will help improve your contracts, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee! If you can't improve your contracts after reading the book, we refund the purchase price.

🛡️ We offer a satisfaction guarantee: Improve your contracts or we refund the purchase price.

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Secrets of Productive Contracts (eBook)

Contents

The Book

Secrets of Productive Contracts_ Verity White Checklist Legal 2020 PDF.pdf
  • 2.97 MB

Included downloads

Checklist Legal_Resources Template_Electronically Optimised Schedules Nov 2020.docx
  • 3.64 MB
Checklist Legal_Resources Template_Key Details Table Nov 2020.docx
  • 1.71 MB
Checklist Legal_Overview_ The Secrets overview_Nov 2020.pdf
  • 552 KB
Example-Legal-Process-Mapping-Mind-Map-Partner_Onboarding-1.png
  • 39.1 KB
Reverse Sandwich Contract Process
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Secrets-of-Productive-Contracts-by-Verity-White-eBook-Checklist-Legal-1.jpg
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