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Explain a contract clause in plain English
Help a non-lawyer colleague understand what a clause means for them, before they ask legal.
The task
Colleagues send legal "what does this mean?" questions all day. A plain-English explanation of the clause, with the questions to ask legal, makes those conversations faster.
A prompt to start from
Paste it into your AI assistant, then fill in the bits in [square brackets].
Explain this contract clause in plain English for a non-lawyer. Then list: - What it would mean in practice for us as the [customer/supplier] - Any terms whose meaning depends on definitions elsewhere in the contract - Questions I should ask our legal team
Don't tell me whether to sign. Clause: [paste clause only]
What to check in the output
- Treat the explanation as background for a conversation with legal, not a decision.
- Definitions matter: the same words can mean different things in different contracts.
Before you paste anything in
Paste the clause, not the whole contract, and remove party names if the tool isn't approved for confidential documents.
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