Key Takeaways: Contracts don’t work if they don’t match business reality, even if they are perfectly drafted. Collaboration with the business is not optional; it is the only way to…
Key Takeaways: A global legal AI benchmarking study comparing human lawyers and AI assistants on real-world contract drafting tasks found that AI assistants outperformed human lawyers in preparing reliable first…
Hello Fellow Nerds! I founded Contract Nerds in 2020 as a pandemic passion project. What started as one LinkedIn post about contracts, quickly grew into a community and media platform…
Key Takeaways: Vendors often seek unlimited liability for breaches of their intellectual property rights. Customers push back because the obligation not to misuse the SaaS is one of only few…
Key Takeaways: A CLM will not automatically fix broken processes. Instead, it will reflect them back to you with even greater visibility. The success of a CLM project depends on…
Key Takeaways: AI connectors rewire the risk profile of AI deployments by creating data pipelines, elevating exposure in ways not addressed by traditional SaaS terms or even existing AI contracts.…
Key Takeaways: The best contracts are those that are generated in a way that prevents disputes, because they are built on a solid foundation of human expertise. Ambiguous contract language…
Key Takeaways: If you’re new to contracts, your job includes showing others why contracts matter. Reframing contracts as business tools (not legal red tape) helps you influence, align, and enable.…
Key Takeaways: There’s so much more to contracts than what any of us learned in law school. If you’re asked to review a contract for a complex or complicated project,…
Key Takeaways: AI tools can retain and expose confidential information without direct disclosure. Confidentiality clauses should prohibit AI training, retention, and third-party use of data. Include AI-specific safeguards, addenda, and…
Key Takeaways: Predict your counterparty’s perspectives with AI prompts that can eliminate your blind spots and help you anticipate sticky negotiation points. Quickly draft powerful cover emails that clearly articulate…
Key Takeaways: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region comprises a diverse set of legal systems, making one-size-fits-all global contract templates risky and often unenforceable. Clauses like indemnities, governing law, and force majeure…
Key Takeaways: You don’t need 27 metadata fields; you need 8 that actually work. A phased cleanup approach is better than trying to fix everything overnight. A clean contract repository…
Key Takeaways: AI indemnity is evolving beyond IP claims to address broader model risks. Traditional ideas of fault don’t align with AI’s probabilistic and shared-risk nature. Contracts must evolve to…
Key Takeaways: Carefully review the original contract’s amendment rules before writing changes to make sure you follow the required steps, approvals, and limits that control how you can modify the…