A blog about creating better contracts.
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Contract Improvement Personas: the Drafters, Designers, Digitisers and Doers
Lots of people are working hard to improve the way contracts are created, agreed and managed. It’s a fascinating hive of activity. Now, if you’ve worked with me you’ll know I like nothing more than to come up with a model or diagram to explain things around me. It’s my way of bringing order to…
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Lawyers: Creative Social Architects?
My children occasionally ask: “What do lawyers do?”. I always struggle to find an answer. Not because there isn’t one; because there are many. Whenever my mind wanders towards questions like this, I’m reminded of one of my favourite quotes: “The lawyer is constantly engaged in fitting into some workable design the relations of men…
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Contracts: Starting With Why
I was recently reminded of the popular Ted Talk by Simon Sinek, called Starting With Why. It’s worth a watch. Sinek describes how, very often, organisations fall into the trap of focusing on what they do and how they do it but forget to ask the question ‘Why?’. As a commercial lawyer, I spend a lot…