Future Contracts
Electra JaponasEssays by Electra Japonas on how contracts, AI, and legal work are evolving. Written for in-house legal teams navigating what comes next.
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Building an AI-ready contract playbook, step by step
First things first, what’s a playbook?
A contract playbook is a set of rules that set out how an organisation handles a particular type of contract. For each issue that matters, it records the organisation’s preferred position and the...
AI is making contracting worse.
This week I read a post by Heidi Groulx, a commercial lawyer at FloQast, and I haven’t been able to put it down.
Heidi has spent over four years looking after an MSA she is proud of, and with good reason. Customers regularly describe it as...
Your First Legal AI Project Should Be Smaller Than You Think
You want to implement AI in your Legal team.
Perhaps the board has asked what you are doing about it. Perhaps another function has already bought a tool and you are being pushed to do the same. Perhaps your lawyers are experimenting indivi...
Summer Edition: The Second Rotation
There is a particular clarity that arrives about three days into a holiday, once you have stopped checking whether anything is on fire back at work. The noise drops. The small anxieties that felt urgent turn out to have been weather. And in...
Why “Are We Doing AI?” Is the Wrong Question
Most Legal teams I speak to are ‘doing AI’ - but not all of them can tell me what problem it solves.
That gap is the whole subject of this piece, and it is not the teams’ fault. Boards are asking what the AI strategy is. General Counsel ar...
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Legal doesn’t struggle because it lacks tools. It struggles because of how it operates. I write about systems, standards, and the practical use of AI to help in-house legal teams reduce low-value work and focus their judgment where it matters.
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