Free legal guides, checklists and templates
Checklists and templates for the contract work legal teams repeat every week. Every guide is free to read here and to download as Markdown, with no email required. The designed PDFs are still available from the resources page.
The Commercial Contract Review Checklist
A structured, clause-by-clause checklist for reviewing commercial agreements before signature. Built for lawyers and in-house legal teams who review the same contract types week after week and cannot afford to miss the one term that matters.
Read onlineThe NDA Red-Flag Guide
Non-disclosure agreements are the most-signed and least-read contracts in business. They arrive looking standard, get waved through, and then bind a party for years on terms nobody scrutinised. This guide is the opposite of waving them through: a field manual to the clauses that turn a routine NDA into a trap.
Read onlineBuilding a Clause Library and Negotiation Playbook
Most legal teams renegotiate the same dozen clauses on every deal — and reinvent their position each time. A clause library plus a negotiation playbook turns that institutional knowledge into a reusable asset: preferred language, fallback positions, and the rationale that lets anyone on the team hold the line.
Read onlineDue Diligence Data-Room Index Template
A standard index for organising a legal due diligence data room, whether you are the seller preparing it or the buyer's counsel requesting it. Copy the structure, delete what does not apply to the target, and number every document against it before the first reviewer logs in.
Read online15 Contract Red Flags That Cost Businesses the Most
The clauses that look harmless on the page and ruin you in a dispute
Read onlineThe Founder's NDA Template Pack
Three ready-to-use NDAs, plus the clause-by-clause guide to fill them in confidently
Read onlineThe Plain-English Contract Clause Library
30 standard clauses decoded — what each one really means and the version you should accept
Read onlineThe Contract Lifecycle Process Guide
A contract does not begin at drafting and end at signature. It runs from the first request through negotiation, execution, performance, renewal and eventual termination — and value leaks at every handoff. This guide maps the full contract lifecycle, names the failure point at each stage, and gives you the controls that close the gaps.
Read onlineLegal AI Adoption and Data-Security Guide for Law Firms
AI is moving from pilot to production in legal work, and the firms that adopt it well will out-deliver the ones that do not. But "adopt AI" is not a plan, and the wrong rollout exposes a firm to confidentiality breaches, professional-conduct problems, and the kind of error that ends up in front of a regulator. This guide gives partners, general counsel and innovation leads a practical framework for adopting legal AI safely.
Read online50 AI Prompts for Reviewing Legal Documents
Copy-paste prompts that turn any contract into plain English — and surface what to negotiate
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