All organisations have legal documents, like contract or agreement templates, and policies and procedures. These documents can be new (even AI-generated) or long-standing, and they vary in quality and maturity. Most legal documents are living documents in the sense that they have to be upgraded or updated from time to time. Nothing stays the same, and change is accelerating. Business models change, laws change, the enterprise culture changes and the people in organisations change. Legal documents have to iterate, adapt or align with these changes.

We fix broken, incomplete or poorly drafted legal documents.

People within the organisation should update the document when internal changes require it. But when the trigger is an external change (like a change in law), it often makes sense for an external specialist to review and update the document.

The desired outcome is good, up-to-date documents

We’re aiming for beautiful legal documents because they bring significant benefits to you.

How we can help you

  1. Update your existing policies, agreements, terms, or contracts to ensure they comply with (or align with) applicable data protection laws by joining a data protection programme.
  2. Update your data processing agreements (which may be included in your SLAs) by joining a data protection programme.
  3. Update your documents for Companies Act compliance by asking us to review them.
  4. Update your agreement for CPA Compliance by asking us to review it.
  5. Ensure your document complies with (or aligns with) applicable laws (for example, the GDPR and POPIA), includes the essential elements, follows current best practices, and is complete to the extent required by asking us to review it.
  6. Check that your agreements (either templates or instances) are fair and appropriate, having regard to the nature of the relationship; clarify unclear issues; ensure they comply with the law, will not create legal problems, and are enforceable.
  7. Control how documents get reviewed in your organisation by asking us to draft you a document review policy.

Examples of some documents we review and update

Policies

We review policies and help to get them right.

  1. We cover many types of policies, especially IT policies, data governance policies, data protection policies, and compliance policies.
  2. Privacy policy, notices or consents (for users, customers or consumers)
  3. Privacy policy (for suppliers)
  4. Privacy policy (for employees)
  5. Cookie policy and notice
  6. Data protection policy
  7. Access to information manual (PAIA Manual)

Agreement and contract templates

  1. IT contract templates
  2. Data processing agreement (or DPA) templates
  3. Employment contract templates
  4. Commercial lease agreement templates
  5. Many more.

What we need from you

We can provide a fixed-price quote (or at least an accurate estimate) for our fees to review and update one of your documents. To do that, we need a few things from you.

  1. How many documents are there?
  2. Please provide all documents or a sample.
  3. How many pages in total are there?

What is the scope of the review?

We need to align on the scope of the review. Is it comprehensive and in-depth, or high-level, focusing on the major issues or showstoppers? Localising a document for specific countries or globalising it is a type of review, but it focuses more on changing the document than updating it. This is also true when converting documents into plain language.