Contract Visualization

Contract visualization offers new insights into the critical terms of legal agreements. The analysis presented is based our work organizing contract clauses by commonality and consistency in order to identify the terms that are highly negotiated and those that are standard, optional, and…

Your Base Document: A Key Starting Point

It is important to adopt a “base document” or “boilerplate agreement” that has sample language for the various clauses that commonly occur in your agreements (frequently referred to as boilerplate clauses). There are several significant benefits to doing so…

Create “Horizontal Consistency” Amongst Your Documents

One common problem with precedent initiatives is the failure to plan for maintaining the collection, once created. The most obvious aspect of this is the failure to address how the language in your agreements, once published, will…

Your Style Guide: A Critical Factor for Success

Although it may not be self-evident, adopting a house style guide is one of the most important things you can have to help improve the overall quality of your documents.

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