Why Contracts Matter – Contract Nerds
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.…
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Why This Not That™: Expert Contract Tips – Contract Nerds
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,…
7 AI-Specific Confidentiality Clauses – Contract Nerds
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…
3 Essential AI Prompts to Strengthen Your Contract Review – Contract Nerds
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…
Why Global Contract Templates Fail in APAC and How to Draft Smarter – Contract Nerds
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…
5 Steps to Rescue Your Dumpster Fire Contract Repository – Contract Nerds
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…
The AI Output Problem: Rethinking Indemnity in the Age of Generative AI – Contract Nerds
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…
7 Essential Best Practices for Drafting Contract Amendments – Contract Nerds
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…
How to Negotiate Contracts Like a Negotiation Expert – Contract Nerds
Key Quotes “Good contracts professionals are curious more than anything else. Most of the folks that do well and are really good, are more curious.” — Mark Raffan “If they…
The Most Underrated Legal Tool? The Humble Contract Intake Form – Contract Nerds
Key Takeaways: Contract intake forms create order out of chaos and keep legal running smoothly. A well-designed form bridges the gap between legal and the business, making collaboration faster and…
How to Build and Use a SaaS Agreement Playbook: The Great 8 – Contract Nerds
Key Quotes: “Playbooks are the new template.” ~ Nada Alnajafi, Founder of Contract Nerds “Another piece I’m very wary of anything that says this will be your exclusive remedy. No,…
The Disconnect Between Legal and Business When It Comes to Contracts – and How to Fix It – Contract Nerds
Key Takeaways: Legal teams focus on minimizing risk, while business teams prioritize speed and closing deals. This misalignment causes friction, delays, and mistrust. Regular collaboration and playbooks help both sides…
Assignment Clauses: Standards, Exceptions, and Example Language – Contract Nerds
Key Takeaways: An Assignment Clause does not necessarily provide M&A veto rights. Not all M&A transactions involve an assignment triggering the clause. Read your Assignment Clause carefully. Assignment Clauses An…
Building Audit Clauses for How AI Actually Works – Contract Nerds
Key Takeaways: In AI contracting, the audit clause becomes your tool for monitoring how model behavior evolves to ensure continuity across model lifecycles and verifying that operational performance matches contractual…
Navigating the LLM Contract Jungle: A Lawyer’s Findings From an LLM Terms Audit – Contract Nerds
Key Takeaways: If your organization is considering using a large language model (LLM) in their production environment, there are important considerations to remember. The LLMs terms offered by vendors may…