Secrets of Productive Contracts

by Verity White

Overview

What does a productive contract look like?
After years of testing different contracting techniques and many contract negotiations and disputes, it's clear the best contracts look like a Reverse Sandwich. Important stuff on the outside, general stuff on the inside.

This book comes with for partner resources such as legal templates, checklists and other tools, head to https://www.checklistlegal.com/productive-contracts 

A Reverse Sandwich Contract is a contract that is ridiculously readable, lovely to look at, simple to use, fast to negotiate, and easy to automate. And of course, powerfully productive.

This book shows you how to write a contract that is useful and useable.

You want to get more done at work & in business. Pressure on your time keeps mounting every day and you find yourself dealing with repetitive issues, difficult negotiations and mind-numbing admin work. Productive contracts work for you, not against you.

In 'The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts', authors Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind talk about how the future will look for professionals, including lawyers. This book helps legal professionals learn how to survive the changes predicted by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind.

If your business documents aren't optimised for electronic signatures and automation processes, your company will be left behind. If you want to do more with less, you need to increase your productivity. This book will help you increase your productivity & get your contracts working for you, not against you.

It took several years and many failed efforts to figure out the Secrets of Productive Contracts shared in this book. Hopefully, you will get value out of them far sooner in your business productivity journey.

This guide is written for:

new lawyers who want to know how to write a simple contract
paralegals & legal secretaries putting contracts together
solo lawyers at medium sized companies with limited resources
office administrators who want to move to a paperless office
procurement & contract managers keen to develop b customer experience
legal teams in process driven corporations where process efficiency is paramount and
anyone who deals with contracts and thinks 'There has to be a better way!?'.
What will you learn? Here's a little preview...

The big productivity secret - how to make a Reverse Sandwich Contract
How to think digitally about contracts, documents & processes
Where to find minions
How to delegate like Beyonce
Why a contract is not just a bit of paper
How to apply Triple 'O' Productivity to your contract document & your contract process 
Obliterate the unnecessary
Optimise the important
Outsource to robots & humans

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154737354
Publisher:	Checklist Legal
Publication date:	06/15/2017
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Throughout Verity’s career, the one thing that stood out to her was the need to simplify the law and increase productivity to drive better business outcomes. She has worked in several key Australian telecommunications and technology companies of different sizes and structures over the past 7 years.

Whatever a company's size, all want to do more with less. Getting things done accurately and quickly the first time is key.

Verity saw a need for clear and simple contract structures; contracts that easily move through the contracting process and are optimised for electronic processes. She developed Reverse Sandwich Contracting as a low cost, simple technique geared toward filling this gap.

Verity wrote Secrets to Productive Contracts to help young lawyers, paralegals and anyone who works with contracts. She hopes they get the benefits of more productive contracts without the trial and error she went through.

The book is a step-by-step guide to develop forward thinking, digital contacts that are useful and useable for both lawyers and non-lawyers.

We all need to be more productive.

It’s time contracts got disrupted.

Verity is a Director at the Communication Research Institute and Company Secretary with Melbourne social enterprise STREAT Ltd. Verity White is a practising lawyer. She currently works as a Legal Counsel at Australia’s largest telecommunications and technology provider, where she has fun in the Legal Innovation Forum and supports the team managing small-to-medium business customers.

In the real world, you can often catch Verity at Start Up Grind Melbourne events, sitting back amazed by everyone’s cleverness or commuting (slowly) into work via bicycle. In the online world, catch her on Instagram or Twitter @checklistlegal.

Also, check out the accompanying tools and resources available at the Checklist Legal website: checklistlegal.com/productive-contracts.