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SimpleAI // AI-Powered Contracts in Action

Legal teams do not need more “plausible” AI text. They need trusted outputs grounded in real precedent. In this session recap, Electra shows how SimpleAI pairs the Law Insider database and community Standards with playbooks inside Microsoft Word to deliver faster reviews, stronger outcomes, and greater confidence.

Smarter Prompting for AI Contract Review

In this webinar, Electra Japonas walks through real examples of effective legal prompts, showing how small changes in wording can transform AI output. You’ll see best practices for drafting, redlining, and reviewing contracts with AI — and discover how to make every prompt work harder for you.

How to Build Your AI Contract Review Playbook

Learn why 95% of AI pilots fail and how to design playbooks that make contract review actually work.

Redesigning In-House Contracting Processes in the AI Era

Learn how in-house teams are rethinking their contracting workflows—powered by AI and driven by process, not just tools. This session with Electra Japonas covers practical ways to reduce legal bottlenecks, improve speed without sacrificing risk oversight, and design smarter, scalable processes for contract intake, triage, and beyond.

AI Contract Review Checklist: What Legal Teams Should Demand in 2025

Choosing the right AI contract reviewer isn’t about shiny features — it’s about building reliable infrastructure. This 10-point checklist helps legal teams evaluate tools for transparency, control, scalability, and real value, so you can modernize contract review confidently and efficiently.

100+ AI Prompts to Transform Your Contract Reviews

Streamline your redlines, negotiate smarter, and build better playbooks – all with one powerful prompt library.

Your Legal Ops AI Toolkit 

This Legal Ops AI Toolkit offers structure, clarity, and action. It's designed to help legal operations teams assess, implement, and maximize the core AI capabilities available through Law Insider and beyond, without needing to wade through endless documentation or guesswork.

Your Legal AI Playbook Creation Guide

Contract review has traditionally been slow and reactive—but that’s changing. Legal AI is now a real, practical tool that helps teams move faster, reduce risk, and work more proactively. This guide shows how to use our Word add-in and your playbook to turn contract analysis into a streamlined, AI-powered workflow.

Standard Vendor Agreement with Heather Bowen Pascual

In this episode, Heather Bowen Pascual shares principles for drafting and interpreting a Standard Vendor Agreement.

Fund Partnership Agreement with Melinda Scott

Learn how to draft an effective commodity fund partnership agreement. Special focus is given to choices about state of formation, risk disclosures, transfers and redemption of shares, and audits.

General Terms and Conditions with Diane O’Connell

Watch as attorney Diane O'Connell finds shortcomings in a General Terms and Conditions document from the healthcare industry. She takes issue the company's standard document, uncovering questions about licenses granted, indemnities allowed, and guarantees made.

Master Service Agreement (Template)

Learn the basics of a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and download a template contract. This agreement facilitates ongoing services between two parties.

Standard Office Lease with Stewart Banner

Watch as attorney Stewart Banner shares his tips for negotiating a commercial lease. He shares information about key clauses such as tenant rights, landlord responsibilities, and options to extend.

Purchase Agreement (Template)

Learn the basics of a Purchase Agreement, a contract that facilitates the sale of of goods.

Data Processing Agreement (Template)

Learn the basics of the Data Processing Addendum (DPA), a document that governs the management of personal data in business relationships.

Law Insider Resources Added to “The Counsel List”

Law Insider's educational resources are having an impact with in-house lawyers. Get connected to a curated list of relevant learning opportunities and see why Law Insider made the list.

Contract Essentials for Lawyers Advising Startups

This ebook addresses the chaos inherent to advising a startup and the key elements of their most relevant contracts.

Teaming Agreements for Government Contract Bids

Large federal projects involve a complex series of contractors and subcontractors. How do you manage relationships between all those supply chain players?

Is Your Arbitration Clause Complete?

How do you know you drafted an effective arbitration clause? Download this ebook for a helpful checklist.

Drafting Enforceable Arbitration Clauses

Arbitration is a great option for those who want to resolve issues out of court. But how do you ensure your arbitration clause is enforceable?

Y-Combinator SAFE Agreement Briefing

Matias expounds on his teardown of the Y Combinator SAFE Agreements, discussing why this document is important and some of the common practices to watch out for.

Cannabis Simple Agreement for Future Equity

The primary goal of the cannabis Safe is to address the regulatory complexities that come with raising money in the industry. For example, depending on whether a company is raising a priced round (i.e., selling equity at a fixed valuation) or a convertible security round (i.e., a Safe or convertible note), each triggers different regulatory reporting and/or approval processes.

Negotiation Skills – Art of Manipulation

The role of lawyers in a transaction ranges not only from document drafting and reviewing but also to negotiating. In fact, from my perspective, drafting and reviewing documents are the basic skills that each and every lawyer must be well-equipped with while negotiation technique is what defines an outstanding lawyer.

How to Write an International Commercial Arbitration Agreement

Successfully crafting an international commercial arbitration agreement requires the writer to incorporate certain fundamental elements into the text.