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Electra Japonas

Electra Japonas

Chief Legal Officer

Posts by Electra Japonas

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.

Agentic AI: Who Writes the Rules?

Agentic AI doesn’t wait — it acts. Unlike today’s copilots, these systems run contracting processes end-to-end. The only question is whose rules they’ll follow: Legal’s, or someone else’s.

Why AI Tools Fail in Legal (and How Design Thinking Fixes It)

AI adoption in legal teams is often framed as a procurement decision or a technical challenge. But more often than not, the barrier to adoption isn’t technology - it’s behavior. Explore how design thinking removes this barrier.

How In-House Legal Teams Can Actually Adopt AI Tools

Legal teams aren’t short on AI hype. But they are short on time, budget, and clear implementation paths. Everyone’s talking about transformation but too few are talking about how it really happens inside a corporate legal function already stretched to its limits. This article is about the how.

Write Better Prompts with the ICA Framework

As AI becomes a staple in contract workflows, legal teams face a new challenge: how to ask the right question. Weak prompts lead to vague, generic, or risky output. Great prompts, by contrast, generate commercially sound, enforceable suggestions that save hours of review time.

Boutique vs Big Law - Who’s going to win?

Boutique law firms are abandoning the billable hour in favor of AI-enabled, outcome-based pricing models that align better with client expectations for value and predictability. As automation reshapes legal workflows, agile firms that productize their services and prioritize results are outpacing BigLaw’s outdated, effort-based structures.

Beyond Billables: How Law Firms Can Productize Contracting Services with AI

How are modern law firms moving beyond hourly billing? In this webinar, Electra Japonas shares how AI is helping boutique firms productize contracting services—and why that shift is giving them a competitive edge.

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.

Why GCs Are Ditching Manual Contract Review in 2025

Manual contract review is collapsing in 2025. GCs are ditching it not for novelty, but because AI delivers faster, safer, more consistent results. Discover why the smartest legal teams are automating review to cut bottlenecks, reduce risk, and keep pace with business demands.

The Law Insider Index: Benchmarking AI-Generated Clauses Against Market Reality

Discover the Law Insider Index: a powerful benchmarking engine that scores AI-generated clauses against millions of real-world contracts. Gain instant confidence your language aligns with market standards—backed by data, not guesswork—so you can draft, review, and negotiate faster without sacrificing precision or precedent.

Pricing Guide: What AI Contract Review Should Cost (and Why It Usually Doesn’t)

Most AI contract review tools overcharge by hiding costs in sales and overhead. This guide unpacks real vs. inflated pricing, shows what AI review should cost, and explains how Law Insider delivers accurate, precedent-backed redlines at a fair price—without the bloat driving $200+ seat fees.

Best AI Contract Review Tools in 2025: What Legal Teams Need to Know

Explore the 2025 landscape of AI contract review tools with a feature-by-feature breakdown of Law Insider, Spellbook, Ivo, and Robin AI. See how each platform stacks up on data, playbooks, workflows, and pricing so you can choose the right fit for your legal team’s roadmap.

What Is an AI Contract Playbook? From Tribal Lore to Machine-Grade Judgment

Discover how AI contract playbooks transform institutional knowledge into real-time, rule-based guidance. Learn the evolution from tribal lore to machine-grade precision—and why automating your playbook cuts review time, boosts consistency, and turns contract friction into a competitive advantage.

Is AI Contract Review Secure? (A Legal Deep Dive)

AI contract review security isn’t about buzzwords; it’s about clear protections. Learn how data privacy, confidentiality, model exposure, vendor liability, and regulations shape trust in AI tools—and what legal teams should demand to ensure sensitive contracts stay private and secure.

How AI Contract Review Works - From Raw Text to Actionable Redlines

AI contract review breaks contracts into clauses, aligns them with your playbooks, and suggests edits you control. It’s not a black box — it’s a transparent, defensible workflow that speeds up reviews while keeping lawyers fully in charge.

Manual vs. AI Contract Review: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Compare manual vs. AI contract review side by side. Discover key differences in speed, accuracy, and cost—and see why AI is essential for modern legal teams.

What Types of Contracts Are Best Suited for AI Review?

Discover which contracts are ideal for AI-powered review, from NDAs to complex SaaS agreements. Boost efficiency and reduce risk with the right approach.

What Is AI Contract Review? How It Transforms Legal Workflows

The way legal teams review contracts is undergoing a seismic shift - and at the center of it is AI Contract Review. Learn what AI Contract Review is, how it works, and why it’s transforming legal teams’ contract processes. Cut review time by up to 70%.

100+ AI Prompts to Transform Your Contract Reviews

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

Legal Ops 2.0: How In-House Teams Are Upgrading Workflows with AI

Learn how legal operations is evolving from a behind-the-scenes role to the architect of modern legal systems. In this on-demand webinar, Electra Japonas breaks down six critical workflow shifts and what Legal Ops 2.0 means for your team.

Legal Ops 2.0: From Back Office to Business Engine

Legal Operations is evolving from a behind-the-scenes support role into a strategic leader, driven by the rise of AI and intelligent systems. In this new era, Legal Ops designs and governs the interconnected tools, workflows, and data that power modern legal service delivery at scale.

Are you still babysitting your contracts?

Legal teams are bogged down by repetitive contract reviews due to a lack of trust in business users. Like HR’s transformation, Legal is shifting from hands-on execution to system-based governance. By embedding rules into AI-powered tools, Legal can scale its expertise, enabling teams to handle contracts within set boundaries. This reduces bottlenecks, speeds up workflows, and positions Legal as a strategic enabler—not a gatekeeper.

What Happens When Legal Expertise Stops Being Rare?

Your legal knowledge - once your moat - is now table stakes. What’s left is what you build with it.

Build Your AI Playbook with Me

In this hands-on session, Law Insider's Chief Legal Officer Electra Japonas will walk you through how to create a general commercial terms contract review playbook—step by step. Save your seat today!

❝Is CLM Dead? Or Finally Becoming What It Was Meant to Be?❞

The all-in-one “CLM platform” is fading - and that’s a good thing. See how CLM is becoming a flexible, intelligent toolkit built to fit how people actually work, and evolve as they do.

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.

Prompt Engineering Masterclass

In this hands-on session, we walk you through how to build your own AI-powered contract review playbook—live and step-by-step.

Prompt Engineering Is the New Drafting

A personal take on how legal tech is reshaping the lawyer’s craft—and why we need to start talking about it.

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.

Introducing AI-Powered Contract Review and Drafting—Directly Inside Microsoft Word

Designed for in-house legal teams, law firms, and legal operations professionals, this on-demand webinar walks through how to use AI to redline contracts, apply custom and market-standard playbooks, and generate clauses using real legal data—not guesswork.

Prompt Engineering: The Skill Every Lawyer Needs in the Age of AI

While everyone talks about “AI tools” and “automation,” prompt engineering remains the most under-discussed (and arguably the most important) skill lawyers can learn today. It's the foundation that enables AI to actually deliver useful, context-aware insights. Without it, AI is just another black box.

How to Prompt Engineer for Lawyers: Get Better AI Contract Reviews

Lawyers who understand prompt engineering can significantly improve the quality of AI-driven contract analysis, making reviews faster, more precise, and more actionable. In this guide, we’ll break down how lawyers can master prompt engineering to get better AI contract reviews every time.

Why AI Contract Review Won’t Replace Lawyers (But It Will Replace This Task)

In the ever-evolving world of legal tech, one question keeps coming up: Will AI replace lawyers? The short answer: No. The better question: What tasks will AI replace?

AI in Contracts: The Real Value Is Speed, Not Just Accuracy - So Why Are We Only Measuring Accuracy?

AI in contract review is often judged by accuracy—but is that the right metric? In this article, Electra Japonas explores why speed is just as critical, how AI can accelerate deals without sacrificing quality, and what we should really be measuring.

How AI Can Help You Close Deals Faster

Slow contract reviews create bottlenecks, frustrate sales teams, and delay revenue. In this expert-led webinar, Electra Japonas and Preston Clark break down how AI-powered contract review tools are helping legal teams move faster, reduce friction, and close deals with confidence.

How AI + Standardization Will Change Contract Review Forever

The rise of AI in legal tech is being hailed as a turning point for contract negotiations. We’re told that AI will make contracting more efficient, reduce friction, and speed up the review process. The assumption is that if we can process contracts faster, we will negotiate faster. But speed has never been the fundamental problem. Contracts don’t take too long because we lack processing power. They take too long because we lack consensus.

Why Larger Organizations Should Embrace Contract Standards: It’s Not About Power, It’s About Profit

For larger organizations with significant market power, adopting standardized contracts may seem unnecessary. After all, if your agreements rarely face pushback and counterparties are eager to accept your terms, why bother?

oneSaaS: Standardizing SaaS Agreements for Efficiency, Collaboration, and Impact

The SaaS industry is thriving, with over 30 million SaaS agreements signed annually. Yet, these contracts are plagued by inefficiency, inconsistency, and unnecessary complexity. oneSaaS is here to change that. This paper outlines the problem, our approach to solving it, and why adopting oneSaaS is essential for modern SaaS companies as well as buyers of SaaS and their legal teams.

The Power of Standardization: Lessons from Other Industries and the Legal Sector

Standardization is a concept as old as civilization itself. From the earliest measurements used in trade to the modern-day protocols governing the internet, standardization  has driven efficiency, reduced costs, and fostered collaboration across industries. So, why hasn’t the legal industry embraced standardization for contracts?

The Future of the Legal Industry: Why Standardization is the Key to Progress

The legal industry is undergoing a quiet revolution. Long seen as a field resistant to change, it is now facing pressures to adapt to new technologies, business demands, and societal expectations. In this transformation, one idea stands out as a cornerstone for the future: Contract Standardization.

Our 2025 Predictions

Whether you’re leading a legal team, navigating the latest tech, or simply curious about what’s next, these insights will help you prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead.

The Importance of Standardization 

Contracts are everywhere, but here’s the problem: there are too many of them, they’re often too complex, and they demand more time than anyone has. Contracts are broken.