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Client Stories: Bronwyn Smith Founder of Promoloco

In this instalment of our Client Stories series, we catch up with Bronwyn from Promoloco, who is shaking up the world of promotional merchandise for the better.

Like many small business owners, Bronwyn Smith of Promoloco has a close working relationship with her customers. She initially ran her business on trust, but is now protected by a Checklist legal set of service conditions and privacy policy. Having collaborated with Bron on our gorgeous client gifts and Checklist Legal merch, we’re happy to confirm that despite leveling up her legal protection, she hasn’t lost any of the personalised spirit of her business approach!

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Re-designing contracts for readability, usability, and trust

Do you have a contract you hate working with? Do you get complaints about how long the contracting process takes? If you aren’t proud of your contracts, you can change them! You can re-design contracts to help better achieve your organisation’s strategy and reduce real business risks (instead of using the same old precedents!).

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Legalpreneurs Expo - Law Institute of Victoria Careers Week 2021

The Law Institute of Victoria Legal Innovation and Technology Committee in conjunction with PEXA present the ‘Legalpreneurs Expo’ to inspire and educate legal professionals and law students on the ever growing ways to embed legal innovation in your career. Verity White joined this Panel Discussion event, along with Tom Dreyfus and Sam Flynn from Josef and Eric Chin from Alpha Creates.

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What's Your Legal Tech Type?

Ever wonder where your tech abilities sit in relation to other lawyers? Find out what your legal tech type is and then increase your tech-knowledge-y (see what we did there?) with some tailored tech homework.

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Top 10 questions to ask your lawyer

What to ask your lawyer and what to expect to make the most of legal advice

Whether you chose to work with Checklist Legal or someone else, it is useful to understand the kinds of information a lawyer will ask you about. And perhaps even more importantly, be ready to ask the lawyer some key questions yourself!

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The Legal 500's Guide to AUSTRALIA'S RISING STARS

Verity White is a multi talented legal counsel within enterprise consumer contracting at Telstra, supporting large “whole of business” tenders for some of the largest Australian banks and other service providers. She is a specialist in small business transformation, and is guiding the small business team through a tumultuous period of change in the market and in the organisation to open a new external sales channel and work to support and develop a brand new premier business channel for Telstra’s increasingly sophisticated small business customers.

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Designing contracts for yes

How to create contracts clients want to sign.

If I could have one birthday wish (yes… it is my birthday today!), it would be that everyone who writes contracts tries hard to make them readable and understandable. It’s more important now than ever that our contracts are clear, actionable, user-focused, and automated. It was an absolute delight contributing a chapter to Juro’s Modern Contract Handbook

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