Most in-house contract teams run on knowledge that lives in a few people's heads. The senior reviewer knows which limitation of liability positions the company will accept, which indemnity language is a hard no, and when a deviation is worth escalating. That works fine until the team grows, the volume climbs, or that person is out for a week. A playbook is how a team turns that individual judgment into something the whole group can rely on. But a lot of playbooks either never get written or get written once and then sit unused because they're too long, too vague, or too far removed from how the work actually happens.
In this webinar, Laura Frederick and Amy Grubb will walk through how to build a playbook a contract team will actually use. They'll cover what belongs in a playbook and what doesn't, how to pull the reasoning out of your most experienced reviewers and get it into a usable form, and how to write for the different people who'll rely on it. A playbook a junior reviewer uses for a first-pass redline looks different from one a business team uses to self-serve on low-risk terms, and both look different from what a senior approver needs when a deal lands on their desk for sign-off. The speakers will also talk about how a good playbook does double duty as a training tool when someone new joins the team.
*Live CLE Credit Information:
How to Contract will apply for 1.25 hours of General CLE credit in CA, PA, and TX.
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