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Resources for drafting and negotiating better contracts.

Optimizing Your Legal Function in 2026

Legal is scaling fast. This webinar explores how Legal teams can move from reactive review to intentional design, using the 5+1 Framework to embed judgment, align with the business, and scale without losing control.

SimpleAI // AI-Powered Contracts in Action

Legal teams do not need more “plausible” AI text. They need trusted outputs grounded in real precedent. In this session recap, Electra shows how SimpleAI pairs the Law Insider database and community Standards with playbooks inside Microsoft Word to deliver faster reviews, stronger outcomes, and greater confidence.

Smarter Prompting for AI Contract Review

In this webinar, Electra Japonas walks through real examples of effective legal prompts, showing how small changes in wording can transform AI output. You’ll see best practices for drafting, redlining, and reviewing contracts with AI — and discover how to make every prompt work harder for you.

How to Build Your AI Contract Review Playbook

Learn why 95% of AI pilots fail and how to design playbooks that make contract review actually work.

AI Contract Review Checklist: What Legal Teams Should Demand in 2025

Choosing the right AI contract reviewer isn’t about shiny features — it’s about building reliable infrastructure. This 10-point checklist helps legal teams evaluate tools for transparency, control, scalability, and real value, so you can modernize contract review confidently and efficiently.

100+ AI Prompts to Transform Your Contract Reviews

Streamline your redlines, negotiate smarter, and build better playbooks – all with one powerful prompt library.

Your Legal Ops AI Toolkit 

This Legal Ops AI Toolkit offers structure, clarity, and action. It's designed to help legal operations teams assess, implement, and maximize the core AI capabilities available through Law Insider and beyond, without needing to wade through endless documentation or guesswork.

Your Legal AI Playbook Creation Guide

Contract review has traditionally been slow and reactive—but that’s changing. Legal AI is now a real, practical tool that helps teams move faster, reduce risk, and work more proactively. This guide shows how to use our Word add-in and your playbook to turn contract analysis into a streamlined, AI-powered workflow.

Standard Vendor Agreement with Heather Bowen Pascual

In this episode, Heather Bowen Pascual shares principles for drafting and interpreting a Standard Vendor Agreement.

Fund Partnership Agreement with Melinda Scott

Learn how to draft an effective commodity fund partnership agreement. Special focus is given to choices about state of formation, risk disclosures, transfers and redemption of shares, and audits.

General Terms and Conditions with Diane O’Connell

Watch as attorney Diane O'Connell finds shortcomings in a General Terms and Conditions document from the healthcare industry. She takes issue the company's standard document, uncovering questions about licenses granted, indemnities allowed, and guarantees made.

Master Service Agreement (Template)

Learn the basics of a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and download a template contract. This agreement facilitates ongoing services between two parties.

Standard Office Lease with Stewart Banner

Watch as attorney Stewart Banner shares his tips for negotiating a commercial lease. He shares information about key clauses such as tenant rights, landlord responsibilities, and options to extend.

Purchase Agreement (Template)

Learn the basics of a Purchase Agreement, a contract that facilitates the sale of of goods.

Data Processing Agreement (Template)

Learn the basics of the Data Processing Addendum (DPA), a document that governs the management of personal data in business relationships.

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Teaming Agreements for Government Contract Bids

Large federal projects involve a complex series of contractors and subcontractors. How do you manage relationships between all those supply chain players?

How a Well-Drafted LLC Agreement Fosters Good Business

The LLC, or Limited Liability Company, is a unique business entity that has many financial and social benefits. Falling somewhere between a general partnership and a more formal corporation, the LLC creates a layer of protection for individual members and offers great tax incentives. For these reasons, an LLC is a common way to structure small businesses with more than one owner.

Mastering Service Contracts with the Service Level Agreement

A Master Service Agreement (MSA) is a standard contract in the subscription software industry. It lays a strong foundation for the relationship between provider and user and establishes a solid framework for other agreements. While the MSA typically ensures protections like confidentiality, clarity on each party’s responsibilities, and guidelines for dispute resolution, sometimes companies need more specific guarantees of service. This is where the Service Level Agreement comes into play.

Good, Bad, and Ugly Non Disclosure Agreements

Patrick O' Malley, a business attorney, and executive for over 26 years, discusses three non-disclosure agreements: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Patrick has seen many NDAs and has a strong opinion on them, having run the world's first incubator and being involved in a cannabis business. Here, he walks through what a good NDA looks like, and shows some examples of laughably bad ones.

Y-Combinator SAFE Agreement Briefing

Matias expounds on his teardown of the Y Combinator SAFE Agreements, discussing why this document is important and some of the common practices to watch out for.

Cannabis Simple Agreement for Future Equity

The primary goal of the cannabis Safe is to address the regulatory complexities that come with raising money in the industry. For example, depending on whether a company is raising a priced round (i.e., selling equity at a fixed valuation) or a convertible security round (i.e., a Safe or convertible note), each triggers different regulatory reporting and/or approval processes.

Negotiation Skills – Art of Manipulation

The role of lawyers in a transaction ranges not only from document drafting and reviewing but also to negotiating. In fact, from my perspective, drafting and reviewing documents are the basic skills that each and every lawyer must be well-equipped with while negotiation technique is what defines an outstanding lawyer.

How to Write an International Commercial Arbitration Agreement

Successfully crafting an international commercial arbitration agreement requires the writer to incorporate certain fundamental elements into the text.