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What Is CLM?

Software that manages a contract from request through drafting, negotiation, approval, signature, storage, obligations and renewal.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

CLM is one of the largest legal tech categories and usually one of the first systems an in-house team buys. Implementations succeed when they start with one high-volume contract type and a clear intake process, and struggle when they try to model every contract at once.

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Related Terms

Contract repository
A central, searchable store of an organization's signed contracts and their key data, such as parties, dates, values and renewal terms.
Obligation management
Tracking what each signed contract requires and when: payments, notices, reporting, renewals and deliverables.
Contract intake
The process by which the business asks legal for a contract or a review, ideally through one form that captures the details legal needs up front.
E-signature
An electronic way to sign a document, legally recognized for most commercial contracts in the US, UK, EU and many other jurisdictions.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.