Drafting

InCounsel Weekly #268

For GCs

Hands down the best set of practical use cases I’ve seen for GCs to use ChatGPT 👏

Liability

An analysis of three limitation of liability clauses, spanning the good, bad and ugly 🚩

NSDR

Take 10 mins to reset you mind and body with a non-sleep, deep rest session 💡

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"It's great that it can hit both my legal and engineering interests in a single newsletter." – Stephen Myers, VP, Head of Legal at People.ai.

InCounsel Weekly #262

Compare

A handy comparison between two of most popular ‘standard’ NDA templates – oneNDA and Bonterms’ Mutual NDA 📑

Spellbook

An add-in for Word that reviews and suggests clause language for your contracts 🙌

Turnover

According to data [gated] from 16 firms, “roughly one-third of Australian associates left their firm over the past 12 months” 😧

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InCounsel Weekly #248

Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)

Robust

The biggest cause of drawn out contract negotiations is starting from unreasonable AKA “robust” standard terms 😭

Home

This country looks set to make working from home a legal right 🏡

NotLeap

A class-action for firms that have had to spend time and money moving from LEAP Legal Software ⚖️

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"Still one of my favourite sources of news on legal innovation and tech." – Shilpa Bhandarkar, CEO at Nakhoda.

InCounsel Weekly #243

Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)

Climate clauses

Get free access to the clauses and tools you need to align your contract drafting with net zero 🍃

At CLOC ‘22…

"Stand up if you have CLM" "Stay standing if it's working well for you" Half of audience sits down 🤦

Spend

Codat’s sole counsel, Rebecca McKenzie on how she tracks external spend using a shared spreadsheet 📊

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InCounsel Weekly #236

Bite-sized 🍣 for in-house counsel and creative legal minds. Curated and crafted with ❤️ by David Bushby. Newcomers can subscribe here :)

Metrics

Any in-house lawyer thinking about metrics should check out this excellent, free resource 📊

Panels

A deep dive into four of the most common, fatal flaws of corporate law firm panels 🚧

Redlines

When it comes to redlining contracts the data says: Microsoft Word still reigns supreme 👑

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