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The Widget is a web-based contract and document drafting system developed and managed by Wiggin, one of the UK's leading media law firms.
The Widget provides a cost-effective way for companies to generate in-house contracts and other documents, safe in the knowledge that they are properly drafted and reflect the latest developments. It is designed to take the time, expense and worry out of preparing, updating and managing the contracts and documents that you use on a regular basis.
How does it work?
When you want to prepare a particular contract or letter, you pick the document you want from the set of templates in your chosen sector, and what we call a "wizard" appears on screen, which is a form that takes you through the drafting process in plain English. You work through the wizard, filling in the necessary information where prompted (for example the contracting parties' names and addresses, and the key commercial terms) and you make the appropriate choices from clause options where prompted. You don't have to understand the law, but you do need to understand your business!
When you have completed the building process, the software prepares your contract or document using the terms you have chosen and the information you have entered, and the finished draft is made available to you for download as a Word document for use in the normal way.
You can revisit your draft any time using the wizard to amend it, or to re-create it. The Widget also provides access to Wiggin's specialist lawyers to provide additional advice, if needed.
When the document is agreed and signed, you can if you like use the Widget as a document storage facility by uploading a scanned PDF version of the signed document to your account. You can search and access your stored documents at any time during your subscription.
We have made sure that the Widget is a secure service, so that no outside party will be able to access your documents except you and your nominated users. We will be able to access your documents for maintenance or trouble-shooting purposes, but if we do that it will be under the same rules of client confidentiality that bind us in respect of all our clients.
What documents are available?
A number of different sets of documents are available on the Widget. Some are standard contracts which are specific to particular media industry sectors such as record labels, music publishers and magazine publishers. For each of these sectors we have prepared a set of standard contract templates. We maintain these templates on a regular basis to ensure they are up-to-date in terms of both legal and commercial developments. Other industry contract sets will be added on a regular basis - watch this site for updates.
The Employment & HR set (which includes contracts and letters regularly used by employers including employment contracts, independent contractor/freelance agreements and letters for dealing with a variety of HR issues) is applicable to all businesses, regardless of the sector in which they operate.
You can also use your own contracts on the Widget if you prefer - our bespoke Widget service is designed to let you upload and use your own templates on the Widget and work on wizards specially designed for you.
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