Understand and manage your contracts
Regulation, legal AI and contract practice, for legal departments and business teams.
eIDAS 2 and the European Digital Identity Wallet: what changes on December 24, 2026
Member States must provide a digital identity wallet by December 24, 2026. What this changes, and does not change, for business contracts.
November 7, 2026 · 5 min readRead the article
How to choose CLM software: the criteria that really matter
A feature list does not separate two CLM tools. Here are the criteria to check on your own contracts, and a method to decide without an endless project.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
Contract management software: the requirements template to download
The questions to ask contract management software vendors about functionality, security, rollout and reversibility, in a document you can adapt.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
How much does a CLM really cost?
The license price is only part of a CLM budget. The cost items to plan for, the billing models to compare and the method for building a defensible estimate.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
Document management or CLM: which should you choose to manage contracts?
A document management system organizes documents, a CLM manages contracts. How to tell whether your DMS is enough, when a CLM is justified, and how to run both side by side.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
Tracking contracts in Excel: 7 signs that it is time to change
A notice period discovered too late, a file maintained by a single person, dates that no longer match the contracts: seven signs that your spreadsheet is no longer enough.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
Migrating existing contracts to a CLM: method, OCR and pitfalls
Inventory, data to migrate, OCR limits, checking extractions and what to do with originals: the method for moving your contracts into a CLM without weakening your portfolio.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
The contract audit: a method for taking stock of your contracts
Scope, gather, record, check, rank, act: a practical method to know what your contract portfolio contains and decide what to do next.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
Harvey, Legora, Claude: what the legal AI race changes for a legal department
Record funding rounds, offices in Paris, general-purpose models moving into legal work: what happened in 2026, and the questions to ask before choosing a tool.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
ChatGPT or Claude to review a contract: what to know before relying on them
What these tools can do with a contract, what their terms say about your data, and how to organize review without naming a winner.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
AI hallucinations: what the first French court decisions teach lawyers
Since December 2025, French courts have been noting nonexistent references in court filings. What they decided, and what legal teams can take from it.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
AI agents and contracts: what already works, what remains to be proven
Harvey, Legora, Claude and ChatGPT offer agents. What we know about their results on contracts, what rests on the providers alone, and where to place human review.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
AI use policy for a legal department: the template to adapt
Authorized tools, data not to enter, checks, responsibilities: the sections of an internal policy and the questions to decide, with a template to download.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
Where do your contracts go when you use AI? Hosting and confidentiality
Hosted does not always mean processed in the same place. What the processing location, retention and subprocessors cover, and the questions to ask any provider.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
French legal tech in 2026: players, funding rounds and trends
LegalPlace and Legalstart, the acquisition of Doctrine by RELX, France Legaltech: the key facts of the year and what they mean for a legal department. No ranking.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
The AI Act after the Digital Omnibus: the new timeline and your contracts
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 postpones the rules on high-risk AI, but not Article 50. The key dates, and what they change in the contracts you sign with your AI providers.
November 7, 2026 · 7 min readRead the article
NIS2: what France’s upcoming Resilience law may change in your supplier contracts
As of 7 November 2026, France has not adopted the law transposing NIS2. What the directive already says about the supply chain, and how to prepare your supplier contracts without anticipating the final text.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
GDPR Article 28: a checklist for the data processing agreement
When a service provider processes personal data on your behalf, Article 28 of the GDPR sets the minimum content of the contract. The checklist, with guidance from the CNIL and the Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
Qualified electronic signature: when is it required?
No general rule requires a qualified signature for a business contract, but only a qualified signature benefits from the presumption of reliability. The verified cases where it is required, and how to decide for the others.
November 7, 2026 · 6 min readRead the article
Framework agreement: definition, clauses and long-term management
What Article 1111 of the French Civil Code says, how the framework agreement works with implementing contracts, and how to stay in control of it throughout its term.
November 7, 2026 · 8 min readRead the article