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Contracts

What Is 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.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Poor intake is where contract delays start: requests arrive by email and chat without the deal size, counterparty or deadline. Structured intake lets legal triage requests, route low-risk ones to templates and report on volume.

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Related Terms

Legal intake
How requests reach a legal team, or how new clients reach a firm, ideally through one front door that captures the details and routes the request.
CLM (contract lifecycle management)
Software that manages a contract from request through drafting, negotiation, approval, signature, storage, obligations and renewal.
Legal self-service
Tools that let the business handle routine legal needs itself, such as generating standard NDAs or finding answers to common questions, within limits set by legal.

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