Running Useful Redlines

Redlines (a/k/a "bluelines," "blacklines," or "comparisons") are a staple of turning drafts. The mechanics of producing a redline are relatively simple. And yet junior attorneys and staff often run confusing, mislabeled, unlabeled, or incorrect redlines often due to misunderstanding the goals of running the redline in the first place. This course teaches how and why redlines are useful to your audience and how to run redlines to make their job as easy as possible (and, ultimately, yours as well).

Training outcomes

Learn how and why redlines matter in a document turning workflow.
Learn what redlines to run to focus your recipient on relevant changes.
Learn practical tips for naming and organization to facilitate running accurate redlines easily.

Running useful redlines begins with empathy for your audience

We begin this course by teaching what redlines are, why people run them, and how to run a redline. From there, the learner will explore a timeline of a draft, across multiple versions and stakeholders. The learner will learn about cumulative and iterative redlines and how to make sure to focus their audience on the changes most useful for them at each transmittal of drafts. To drive home these lessons, the learner will practice identifying the correct versions of a file to use for each redline they'll send in a hypothetical series of transmittal emails. Lastly, we'll review a number of practical, "pro tips" to make sure the learner runs redlines as usefully as possible through their drafting process and whenever they're sending a draft to someone else.

Learn by making mistakes in realistic, no-stakes exercises

As is always the case with Praktio courses, learners learn not just through watching and listening to practical lessons and examples but also through doing practical, realistic exercises—not to test, but to provide opportunities to apply and practice, while receiving immediate feedback on everything.

Build a curriculum

Pair with these other offerings to build out your practical, online, interactive curriculum.

Closing Checklists

Confidentiality Agreements

Contract Fundamentals

Disclosure Schedules

Doing Due Diligence

Force Majeure Clauses

Organize Better Briefs

Precision Training: Litigation

Precision Training: Transactional

Precision Weekly: Litigation

Precision Weekly: Transactional

Reading Cap Tables

Signature Pages

Writing Useful Emails

Workshops

In case you were wondering

Modules outline

What, Why & How
Focusing on Relevant Changes
Pro Tips for Running Useful Redlines

Important details

CLE: Not currently available.

Duration: You will have 1 year from the date of purchase to access and complete your online course materials. On average, it takes about 30 minutes to complete the whole course; however, learners get to decide how much time to spend on each exercise and module.

Accessing: Following checkout, you will receive an email providing you with access to your online course materials.

Compatibility: Please use Chrome on a PC or Mac computer.

Reference Materials: As part of this purchase, you will also receive an e-book (which you may download or print for your use and later reference).

We Don't Share Your Scores! Praktio does not share user performance data (e.g., "scores") with anyone, including employers (e.g., if you're an associate taking this training at a law firm). The only information shared with employers who purchase this training for their employees is progress data (e.g., how much of the course you have completed by when).