Michael Haynes
Michael Haynes is the General Counsel at Juro, bringing over a decade of legal expertise to the team. Since joining in 2022, Michael has led Juro’s legal function, supporting the platform’s mission to empower businesses with intelligent contract automation.
As a two-time customer prior to joining Juro, Michael occupies a key role in helping to guide product strategy to meet the needs of time-crunched legal teams looking to agree contracts faster.
An experienced in-house lawyer, Michael has a strong track record in tech, intellectual property, and data protection law, making him a critical asset to high-growth digital companies. Previously, Michael was Group Head of Legal at Cazoo, where he helped navigate the company’s rapid expansion and led its legal operations. He also held senior legal roles at RVU and ZPG, focusing on commercial law and compliance in innovative digital settings. Michael began his career at Freshfields as a trainee and then associate.
Known for his pragmatic approach and collaborative mindset, Michael ensures that Juro remains compliant, forward-looking, and resilient in the fast-evolving legal tech landscape.
FREE LIVE CLE CREDIT IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR IN-HOUSE COUNSEL (FRACTIONAL GCs, GOVERNMENT ATTORNEYS, & ALSP ATTORNEYS INCLUDED) AND SUBSCRIBERS TO IN-HOUSE CONNECT ON-DEMAND.
IF YOU ARE A LAW FIRM ATTORNEY YOU ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND OUR LIVE EVENTS BUT UNLESS YOU ARE SUBSCRIBED TO IHC ON-DEMAND, WE WILL NOT BE PROCESSING YOUR CLE REQUESTS.
This program is approved for CLE credit in the following states: New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Texas.
This program is pending CLE credit in the following states: Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming and Wisconsin.
This program is pending CLE and CPD credit for self-application by the attorney or for reciprocal CLE credit in the following states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Québec, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington.
We do NOT provide CLE for: Mississippi or Arkansas.
This program is appropriate for newly admitted attorneys and experienced attorneys.
How to Build Contract Playbooks that Actually Work: A How To Guide for In-House Legal
Event Description
When contract volume spikes, the answer isn’t always more headcount—it’s a playbook that actually drives speed, consistency, and risk control. In this hands-on session, we’ll dig into why playbooks matter more than ever as legal teams amplify their impact with AI, and how to design them so they work for humans and automation.
Join us on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT as Michael Haynes, General Counsel at Juro, shares practical frameworks and examples—along with insights from a guest speaker who’s already embedding AI in their contract process. We’ll show how to build playbooks that power automation, not stall it.
Key takeaways
- What “great” looks like in 2025: the essential sections, decision trees, and metadata your playbook needs to be AI-ready.
- How to encode standard positions and fallbacks (with rationale) so humans and copilots reach the same answers fast.
- Governance that sticks: ownership, versioning, and update cadences that prevent drift.
- Adoption tactics for fast-moving teams: rollout plans, training, champions, and usage metrics that matter.
- Integration tips: aligning playbooks with your CLM/CRM and prompting patterns that improve AI outputs.
- Bonus: a downloadable starter template to accelerate your build.
Who should attend
In-house counsel, legal operations leaders, contracts managers, and heads of legal at growth-minded companies who want to reduce cycle times, improve consistency, and make their contracts program automation-ready—without adding headcount.
There is NO COST to attend this program!
This program is FREE thanks to our gracious sponsor, Juro — Intelligent Contracting! If you can’t make it to the live program, the recording will be available for viewing via our paid CLE library, In-House Connect On-Demand!
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