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Drafting With Technology Doesn’t Have to Be Painful: A Practical Framework from Catherine Bamford
Drafting With Technology Doesn’t Have to Be Painful: A Practical Framework from Catherine Bamford
Legal Tech and AI
Improving Contracting
A practical framework to simplify legal drafting with better templates and the right mix of automation and GenAI.
Run on Process, Not on Pressure: A Practical Path to Standardisation and Efficiency
Run on Process, Not on Pressure: A Practical Path to Standardisation and Efficiency
Improving Contracting
See how process beats pressure. Learn how standardisation drives consistency, efficiency, and lasting improvement.
Why Contracts Don’t Need to Be 50 Pages Long: Lessons from Sarah Fox
Why Contracts Don’t Need to Be 50 Pages Long: Lessons from Sarah Fox
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Join Sarah Fox to discover how shorter, simpler contracts save time, build trust, and get deals signed faster without losing protection.
Building Value Without the Buzzwords
Building Value Without the Buzzwords
Legal Tech and AI
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Learn how to build effective legal operations without big budgets or fancy tech. Practical tips from Tanisha Minev on driving real business results
Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
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Chris Butterworth shares practical strategies for legal teams to build a culture of continuous improvement and deliver greater impact.
How HSBC’s Legal Team Is Redefining Value
How HSBC’s Legal Team Is Redefining Value
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Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Sophie Spurr, Associate General Counsel at HSBC, shares how their legal team works smarter by partnering with ALSPs.
Thought Leadership Series: Igniting Ideas, Sharing Solutions
Thought Leadership Series: Igniting Ideas, Sharing Solutions
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Organisational Change
Legal Tech and AI
Big ideas. Bold voices. Smarter ways to lead and deliver—see what’s shaking up the way legal teams work today.
Radiant Law Guide to Contract Playbooks
Radiant Law Guide to Contract Playbooks
Guides
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Learn how to create contract playbooks that streamline negotiations, ensure consistency, and improve decision-making with this practical guide.
Red Flags Legal Teams Must Address to Succeed in 2025
Red Flags Legal Teams Must Address to Succeed in 2025
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Discover the six critical lessons from 2024 that every legal team must learn to stay ahead in 2025.
WorldCC Pitfalls in Contracting
WorldCC Pitfalls in Contracting
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
In this article, we delve into the top ten pitfalls in contracting identified by World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC).
Continuous Improvement: A Game Changer for Your Contracting Process
Continuous Improvement: A Game Changer for Your Contracting Process
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
In this article we explore how continuous improvement can transform contracting processes.
Evaluating Managed Legal Services Providers: What Every In-House Team Should Know
Evaluating Managed Legal Services Providers: What Every In-House Team Should Know
Managed Legal Services
In this article we will highlight the key points to consider in buying managed legal services.
Guide to Online Intake Forms
Guide to Online Intake Forms
Guides
Managed Legal Services
Improving Contracting
So you're going digital, get all your instructions online from the business, maybe even roll out a front door or a CLM. Nice. The form is easy, right?
Old-Fashioned Contracting Views That Slow Down Business Growth
Old-Fashioned Contracting Views That Slow Down Business Growth
Managed Legal Services
Improving Contracting
Are outdated views and practices about contracting holding your business back?
The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Outsourcing Contract Management
The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Outsourcing Contract Management
Contracts Projects
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Effective contract management is critical to the success of your business...
The Problems with Contract Negotiations for Businesses (and How to Fix Them)
The Problems with Contract Negotiations for Businesses (and How to Fix Them)
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Contracting can be far faster and cheaper and deliver better results. We share how...
Building vs Buying Expertise: When to Hire and When to Outsource in Legal Contracting
Building vs Buying Expertise: When to Hire and When to Outsource in Legal Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Should you outsource or hire for your legal contracts? We have the exact answer to this question...
Navigating ‘High Volume’ Contracts: How to Maximise Efficiency (and Minimise Risk!)
Navigating ‘High Volume’ Contracts: How to Maximise Efficiency (and Minimise Risk!)
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
How can you maximise efficiency while minimising risk? Yes it's possible. Find out how.
Rethinking the Stages of Contract Lifecycle: our RADICAL Approach for Legal Teams
Rethinking the Stages of Contract Lifecycle: our RADICAL Approach for Legal Teams
Managed Legal Services
Improving Contracting
Contracting is currently onerous, time-consuming and costly. Radiant Law are changing that through their RADICAL approach.
GenAI and commercial contracting: what’s the point?
GenAI and commercial contracting: what’s the point?
Legal Tech and AI
Bionic lawyer, or robot lawyer? Our thoughts on Generative AI and the future of contracting.
Transforming legal services with a B Corp approach
Transforming legal services with a B Corp approach
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The legal industry isn’t known for its simplicity – or its environmental credentials. But Radiant Law is aiming to do business differently.
Legal Gamechangers: Paul Boyle
Legal Gamechangers: Paul Boyle
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Paul explains the need for diverse perspectives within the legal industry, and whether the industry is changing - and improving - fast enough.
Contract Project Management: The Step by Step Process to Streamlining
Contract Project Management: The Step by Step Process to Streamlining
Contracts Projects
Video & Audio
Improving Contracting
Ian, Dylan and Chelsey discuss how to approach those massive contract reviews, amendments and re-negotiations that can overwhelm your legal team.
Alternatives to the traditional legal team, why Radiant Law lawyer Reshma made the leap!
Alternatives to the traditional legal team, why Radiant Law lawyer Reshma made the leap!
Video & Audio
Improving Contracting
Explore Reshma's Radiant journey, from her decision to join and the contrasts with traditional legal careers in Trinidad.
Fixing legal intake: how to streamline the process
Fixing legal intake: how to streamline the process
Video & Audio
Managed Legal Services
Improving Contracting
Robyn shares her experience of taming the intake process and why it's so important to have someone on top of it all the time.
Continuous improvement in legal teams
Continuous improvement in legal teams
Organisational Change
Video & Audio
Improving Contracting
Jarryd examines the concept of Continuous Improvement and its central role in ensuring that Radiant Law continues to evolve for our team and clients.
Closing contracts quickly
Closing contracts quickly
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Attorney, author and legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan talks with Radiant's CEO on how in-house teams can prioritise and speed up contracting.
Legal Gamechangers: Jenny Whiteman
Legal Gamechangers: Jenny Whiteman
Organisational Change
Improving Contracting
Video & Audio
Jenny Whiteman, Managing Legal Counsel at Federated Hermes, talks about success and growth, and the nuances of an in-house role.
Why do we have contracts?
Why do we have contracts?
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
This excerpt from 'Sign Here: The enterprise guide to closing contracts quickly' by Radiant CEO Alex Hamilton, looks at relationships.
Guide to LawTech
Guide to LawTech
Legal Tech and AI
Guides
Everything you've always wanted to know about LawTech but were afraid to ask.
Knowledge management principles
Knowledge management principles
Organisational Change
Turning tacit knowledge into implicit knowledge.
If you're contracting this way, please stop
If you're contracting this way, please stop
Improving Contracting
Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your standard contracts?
Taming contract demand
Taming contract demand
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Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
At some point, someone in the business is going to need assistance with a contract. Here's how to control demand spikes.
A framework for legal sourcing
A framework for legal sourcing
Organisational Change
Improving Contracting
How companies are finding the right balance of internal and external support to deliver business value cost-effectively.
Contract capability maturity model
Contract capability maturity model
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Want to enhance contracting? Discover the blend of people, process, & tech with Radiant Law's guide on effectively implementing improvements.
Trust, trustworthiness and outsourcing
Trust, trustworthiness and outsourcing
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Why contracts are not enough.
Guide to Buying Contract Projects
Guide to Buying Contract Projects
Contracts Projects
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Everything you need to know to ensure your contract review and remediation projects succeed.
The cost of managing contracts
The cost of managing contracts
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Organisational Change
Managed Legal Services
Estimate the potential savings you could make by changing the way your commercial contracts are supported.
Guide to Buying Managed Legal Services
Guide to Buying Managed Legal Services
Guides
Managed Legal Services
Managed legal services are a great way to supercharge your contracting, but questions abound. Here's the guide you've been waiting for!
On being unreasonable
On being unreasonable
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Legal Tech and AI
Until an unreasonable person just goes and 'does it', nothing much will change. Let's start thinking, and behaving, a little differently.
AI and contracting
AI and contracting
Legal Tech and AI
Improving Contracting
AI is mainly a circus to avoid real improvements. Discuss.
On being reasonable
On being reasonable
Improving Contracting
Why we should all be more reasonable (yes, we know we also have an article on being unreasonable ... there's room for both!)
A different road: combining lawyers with processes and technology
A different road: combining lawyers with processes and technology
Organisational Change
Improving Contracting
We respond to an article on vertically-integrated legal services: the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
AI and satisficing
AI and satisficing
Legal Tech and AI
Why yes, we did feel the need to have another crack at how to think about AI. Drums are there to be beaten.
Robots can't surf
Robots can't surf
Improving Contracting
Legal Tech and AI
We discuss two brilliant articles by Olly Buxton and Jeff Carr, and what it is going to take to surf the coming waves of change.
The system strikes back
The system strikes back
Improving Contracting
Legal Tech and AI
Why contract lifecycle management systems (CLMs) are a step backwards in fixing the contracting problem. Yes, we did just say that.
Contract project tips
Contract project tips
Contracts Projects
If contract review projects land on your desk, we have some tips for how to approach them so that you and your team aren't totally swamped.
Contracting mistake #7: Bad incentives
Contracting mistake #7: Bad incentives
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Managed Legal Services
Are your incentives driving suboptimal outcomes? Let's take a look.
Contracting mistake #6: Deals are different
Contracting mistake #6: Deals are different
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Managed Legal Services
The more of your deals you treat as unique, the harder it will be to find 'the happy path'.
Contracting mistake #5: Robust terms
Contracting mistake #5: Robust terms
Improving Contracting
Organisational Change
Managed Legal Services
This article starts with possibly the best quote ever said about the contracting process. Read on for a joyful takedown of 'robust terms'.
Contracting mistake #4: One more lawyer
Contracting mistake #4: One more lawyer
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
If expanding the team is your go-to solution rather than getting to the root of problems and making improvements, you're missing out.
Fail fast to learn fast: Serena Wallace-Turner & HSBC counsel discuss launching commoditised legal services
Fail fast to learn fast: Serena Wallace-Turner & HSBC counsel discuss launching commoditised legal services
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Advice from HSBC's legal team on how to approach putting a managed legal service in place and making it work.
Contract 'overflow' support is a red flag
Contract 'overflow' support is a red flag
Organisational Change
Managed Legal Services
Bringing a supplier in for overflow support of repeatable work is not only bad for the supplier, but also bad for you.
Contracting mistake #3: Legal should stick to the legals
Contracting mistake #3: Legal should stick to the legals
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Organisational Change
Managed Legal Services
If Legal just sticks to the legals, the business will never be happy and the process will never get better. Ugh.
Contracting mistake #2: Assuming change requires big bangs
Contracting mistake #2: Assuming change requires big bangs
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Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Assuming change requires big bangs is a sure-fire way to get nothing changed. Let’s make it simple.
Contracting mistake #1: no time for the “important, not urgent”
Contracting mistake #1: no time for the “important, not urgent”
Improving Contracting
Managed Legal Services
Organisational Change
Accepting that there is no time to deal with the ‘important, not urgent’ work creates a reactive environment that still hits your team’s capacity.
Guide to Legal Document Automation
Guide to Legal Document Automation
Legal Tech and AI
Guides
Everything you need to know about implementing document automation, including how to avoid the sins of paralysis and perfectionism.
Accelerating Contracting Webinar: Philosophy
Accelerating Contracting Webinar: Philosophy
Improving Contracting
Video & Audio
If you want to accelerate your contracting processes then you're going to need to start thinking radically. Let us explain.
A LawTech Glossary
A LawTech Glossary
Legal Tech and AI
Guides
It's time to slay the legal tech hype. Here's our helpful, and just occasionally mocking, glossary of the terms you need to know.
Guide to Contract Templates
Guide to Contract Templates
Guides
Improving Contracting
Contract templates are the core building block for accelerating contracting. If you haven't got yours in place or want to improve, here's how.
Lawcast: Partnerships vs a Sustainable Future
Lawcast: Partnerships vs a Sustainable Future
Organisational Change
Video & Audio
Alex and Sena discuss the pitfalls of a partnership model, and the reasons behind Radiant's structure.

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