There is so much talk about ChatGPT. A really revolutionary pre-trained AI model! So you wonder, can I use it for doing all my work for legacy contract data extraction including a matchup of masters with their amendments, removal of duplicate documents, removal of unsigned and unwanted documents, etc.? One way to look at it [...] Read More →

Not sure where to start?  We’ve curated the best legacy contract migration/data extraction practices to get you started It’s important to cover the best practices, partially covered in the previous blogs. 1.     Decide which contracts you want to migrate 2.     Decide what data points you want to report on across a set of these legacy contracts 3.     Set […]

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Again, a frequently asked and pertinent question This is the fifth of a ten-part series on contract migration and related data extraction, which will help your legal teams gain a better understanding of the information included in all of your contracts. The first reaction is that EVERY document and EVERY data point needs to be […]

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As part of the legacy contract migration/data extraction series of blogs, here is the 3rd one of the series. Can I extract and track my business-specific information? But of course! In fact, 30-40% of the information Brightleaf extracts is our clients’ business-specific information. To give an example, for a Class 1 Railroad company, we extracted [...] Read More →

The first part of the series covered, what is legacy contract migration and why do I need to do it? Here we will discuss the next/second question that is asked very often too, what attributes do I extract and ingest into a CLM during the legacy contract migration process into a CLM? There is no […]

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What is lease abstraction? Before delving into the benefits of lease abstraction, let’s first clarify its concept. Lease abstraction involves the creation of a concise overview that encapsulates the essential terms and conditions of a lease agreement. This distilled document encompasses critical data points such as commencement and termination dates, rental fees, and options for renewal. […]

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Contract data abstraction means extracting important data points which include clauses, dates, and meta-data from your contracts. Abstracting essential information from your contracts will help you manage and identify existing contractual commitments. Additionally, this will enable you to analyze risks, obligations, and opportunities to avoid potential legal disasters. 80% of corporate legal professionals say that […]

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Once your company is ready to be sold your whole focus is shifted to restructuring a whole new business system. It includes certain activities which need to be taken care of such as what the company is buying and what obligations it is assuming, the nature and extent of the target company’s liabilities, contracts, litigation […]

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It’s important to be on top of your contracts and have all the relevant documents in place. It reduces the chance of missing the relevant and documents that are of high importance and saves time and effort on the documents that are not relevant. As a company growth graph moves upward, having a contract lifecycle […]

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Legacy contracts can be a treasure trove of valuable information for a company. They contain hundreds of important, actionable obligations which need to be tracked and managed. Those are the reasons why migration is so important for every organization and is considered one of the best practices in contract management. Contracts carry an enormous amount [...] Read More →