Priya Subramaniam

Audit your actual contracts and get cross-functional buy-in before drafting playbook guidance.

Forty-two percent of legal departments use CLM, while half still manage contracts on shared drives.

Speed of implementation matters more than feature complexity for lean legal teams.

Teams must track every draft version to prevent unsigned-edits from locking into binding contracts.

Triage contracts by clause before reading them to stop wasting time on low-risk paper.

A 2018 study claiming AI beat lawyers masks how narrow the task was and how much has changed since.

Playbooks fail without tiered positions, clear escalation rules, and drift detection.