Contract Insights

Clause libraries have proven incredibly useful for advanced legal operations and contract lifecycle management – if appropriately implemented.  Unfortunately, your organization can mismanage your clause library with antiquated technology, manual clause tracking and clause storage, and the lack of an expeditious way to leverage clauses during contract authoring and contract negotiation.  Luckily, you can supercharge your clause library with user-friendly and robust contract management software.  Here's how.

Contract review is one of the most critical stages in the life of a contract.  Unfortunately, many organizations are using obsolete contract management methods.  Manual and entirely paper-based contract review methods can lead to missed key dates and deadlines, missed opportunities, costly and damaging contract language oversights, and other harmful consequences and contract lifecycle bottlenecks for your organization.  Luckily, this blog post will examine the contract review process – as well as how one can improve contract review with AI-based contract management software.

2021 has arrived, and with it comes new innovations to your contract management software processes.  Keeping this in mind, we have outlined six critical contract management tools that your organization should equip itself with to stay ahead of future-minded contract management best practices in 2021 and beyond.

In order to get started with improving contract lifecycle management, there first needs to be an understanding of what exactly the contract lifecycle is - as well as how it progresses.  To that end, we have provided an illustration that shows the stages in the life of a contract - as well as descriptions that give more insight into how each stage involves and can be managed with contract management software!