Contract management with obligations and renewals

The work starts when the contract is signed. Register what each contract obliges you to do, delegate it to named colleagues as tasks with deadlines, and see in one overview that it gets done on time.

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The Activities overview in .legal filtered to obligations, each row showing its recurrence, responsible person, linked contract, subtask count, priority and status

Contracts after signature Meridian's contracts stopped depending on Peter's memory

Peter Lund is legal counsel at Meridian Nordic, whose archive holds contracts with around 1,200 suppliers, DPAs and NDAs included. The duties inside them, index-linked price adjustments, supervision of vendors, SLA reporting, used to live in his calendar and a spreadsheet only he could read. Now each duty is registered on its contract with a checklist, an interval and a named colleague in the department that actually performs it. Peter checks one overview instead of remembering everything himself.

  • Every recurring duty sits on its contract with an owner and a deadline, not in Peter's calendar.
  • Colleagues get their tasks by email when it's time to act, and completion is documented.
  • One overview shows across every contract whether delegated obligations are done on time.
  • Renewal dates notify ahead of time, so no contract renews or expires as a surprise.

  • Life after signature

    Contract management here means administration: the contract, its people, its duties and its dates, once the agreement is made.

  • From duty to task

    Every obligation becomes a task for a named colleague, with a deadline and an email when it's time to act.

  • Seen centrally

    One overview across all contracts shows whether delegated obligations are done on time. Neglected ones show red.

  • Renewals in hand

    End dates notify ahead of time, and automatic renewal updates the obligations that follow the contract.

Illustration of a signed contract with reminder notes and a calendar scattered around it, each joined by a thin line to the same single person

Contracts after signature The contract doesn't perform itself

Signing is the easy part to remember. The duties inside the contract, the price adjustment, the supervision, the reports, run for years, and they rarely belong to the person who signed.

  • Recurring duties live in calendars, spreadsheets and the head of whoever negotiated the deal.
  • Delegation without follow-up means finding out at renewal what was never done.
  • The responsible person changes jobs, and the deadline leaves with them.
The Create activity dialogue for an obligation on a master service agreement in .legal, with the title of an annual vendor audit, its scope and deliverables, and six subtasks listed underneath

Contracts after signature Register the duty once, on the contract

An obligation in .legal is a contractual duty that has to be performed repeatedly while the contract runs. You register it where it belongs, on the contract itself.

  • A checklist of what concretely has to be done, as subtasks you can reorder.
  • An interval in weeks, months or years, with start and end dates the platform respects.
  • Named responsible people, several if the duty is shared.
Task Management in .legal filtered to obligation tasks, showing two planned reviews of a data processor agreement with their contract, due date, assignee and subtask progress

Contracts after signature From obligation to a task someone actually sees

A record in an archive reminds nobody. Every obligation automatically creates a linked task, one per occurrence, on the same task board as the rest of your work.

  • The responsible colleague gets an email when it's time to act.
  • The task links back to the contract and shows its parties, so nobody works blind.
  • Completion is documented, so you can show the check happened on time.
Illustration of a contract timeline with a deadline marker tethered just past its end, and a longer outlined timeline above showing the marker moving out with the extended contract

Contracts after signature Deadlines that follow the contract

A notice deadline written into a diary goes stale the day the contract is extended. In .legal a deadline can be relative to the contract itself.

  • Set "30 days before the end date" or "2 months after start", and it adjusts when the contract's dates change.
  • Multi-year commitments are fine, deadlines can sit years out.
  • Obligation templates carry the same relative dates, so a contract created from a template arrives with its duties attached.
The Period step on a contract in .legal, with the start and end date, a renewal period of 12 months, and notification of contract expiry set 12 days ahead

Contracts after signature Renewals without surprises

Renewal is where contract administration usually gets expensive. An end date in .legal is not just a field. It notifies ahead of time, and it can renew the contract for you.

  • Set how long before the end date the Contract Manager is notified by email, also on contracts that renew automatically.
  • Enable automatic renewal per contract template with a renewal period, and obligations tied to the end date move with the renewal.
  • When a contract is archived, its end date closes the open obligations. Planned tasks fall away, completed ones stay as the record.
Illustration of a person setting their own duty card onto two rails that already carry ticked-off task cards, with the contract the duties come from at the left

Contracts after signature Rails, not a robot lawyer

We supply the scheduling, the notifications, the ownership and the record. What the contract obliges you to do is still your reading of it.

  • You define each obligation yourself, the platform doesn't extract duties from the document.
  • Deadlines are scheduled and recurring, tied to the calendar or the contract's own dates, not triggered by something a supplier sends in.
  • Access stays closed by default: a new contract is visible only to its Contract Manager until you grant access.
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Features for obligations and renewals

Obligations on the contract (add-on)

Register each duty with a checklist, an interval in weeks, months or years, and named responsible people. Requires the Obligations add-on, which you switch on yourself.

Obligation templates

Set up a recurring duty once in master data and reuse it across contracts, or attach it to a contract template as required or optional.

Tasks with email notifications

Each occurrence becomes its own task. The responsible colleague gets an email when it's time, and completion is documented in the system.

Deadlines relative to the contract

Set a deadline as "30 days before the end date" and it adjusts itself when the contract's dates change, years ahead if needed.

Automatic renewal

Enable renewal per contract template with a renewal period. When the contract renews, obligations tied to its end date move with it.

AI-assisted contract intake (beta)

Upload the signed document and AI fills the metadata fields of the contract template you choose. In beta, and what the contract obliges you to do stays your call.

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Frequently Asked Questions about contract management

What does contract management in .legal cover?

The life of a contract after it is signed. You upload the contract, register the parties and metadata, and manage obligations, deadlines and renewals for as long as it runs. Drafting, negotiation and e-signing are deliberately not part of the platform, though signed contracts can be imported from Penneo.

What is an obligation in .legal?

A contractual duty that has to be performed repeatedly while the contract runs, like an index-linked price adjustment, supervision of a vendor, or the vendor's SLA reporting. You register it on the contract with a checklist, an interval and named responsible people, and it generates tasks with deadlines and email notifications.

What third-party risk covers

Does the platform read the obligations out of our contracts?

No. You decide what each contract obliges you to do and register it yourself, with templates to make the recurring ones fast. AI can help fill a contract's metadata fields when you upload the document (in beta), but it doesn't extract duties, and the judgement calls stay with you.

Is deadline tracking part of the base contract module?

The contract period with expiry notifications is part of the contract module. Obligations, the duties you define, delegate and follow up on, are a separate add-on you can switch on yourself from My Account in the platform.

Can a deadline start automatically when a supplier sends something in?

No, and we would rather say that plainly. Deadlines in .legal are scheduled and recurring, tied to the calendar or the contract's own dates. Nothing starts a clock from an inbound event, so a response deadline still needs a person to create the task.

What happens when a contract renews automatically?

Renewal is enabled per contract template with a renewal period. When the contract passes its end date it renews, and obligations tied to the end date are updated with it. The notification before a renewal comes from the expiry notification, where you set the lead time yourself. Archived contracts never renew.

What happens to obligations when a contract ends?

When you archive the contract you are asked for an end date, and it closes the obligations that were still open. Planned future tasks outside the end date are removed, while tasks that are in progress or completed are kept, so the record of what was done survives the contract.

Who can see a contract and its obligations?

By default only the contract's Contract Manager, until access is actively granted, per business area or named user. Only users with access to the contract can be made responsible for its obligations, and the central overview shows each user only the contracts they can see.

How access control works

Do colleagues need a licence to be given an obligation?

No. Users are unlimited, so the colleague in operations who actually performs the duty can get the task and complete it themselves, without anyone weighing whether a licence is worth it.

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Realdania
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