For Contract Drafting, We Already Have the Technology We Need
It’s Wednesday, January 30. This afternoon I’ll be at LegalTech, in New York, hanging out with the ContractExpress team, at booth 324/6. But I won’t be on the prowl for technology relating to contract...
View ArticleAnother Helping of Syntactic Ambiguity
Bryan Keenan, director of the Wilmington, Delaware, law firm of Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, let me know about an instance of syntactic ambiguity addressed by the Delaware Court of Chancery in...
View ArticleMy Article in Asian Legal Business
The January 2013 issue of Asian Legal Business contains my micro-article Asia: Different Contracts, Different Cultures. It discusses the mixture of “cultures” of contract drafting in Asia. Go here for...
View ArticleStray Thoughts on Publication of MSCD3
The third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is now on sale, and the ABA is unleashing on the world an email campaign to that effect. The book is still technically in “pre-order”...
View ArticleWhat Is a Contract “Right”?
Although it’s standard to refer to contract “rights,” in this November 2012 post on rethinking the “no assignment” provision, I said the following about “rights”: It’s unclear what “rights” refers to....
View ArticleDiagnosing an Unfortunate Verb Structure
In the recent opinion of the Delaware U.S. District Court in Racing v. T-Mobile U.S. (here), the following contract language was at issue: VICI grants to [T-Mobile] the right to be the exclusive...
View ArticleComputable Contracts?
Via @chbusca and the Legal Informatics blog, I learned that Harry Surden of the University of Colorado Law School has published in the UC Davis Law Review an article with the concise title Computable...
View ArticleListen to Podcast About MSCD3
If you’re in the market for—gulp!—37 minutes of conversation about the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, go here for an ABA Section of Business Law podcast that offers exactly...
View ArticleThe “Successors and Assigns” Provision and Successor Liability
The shortcomings of traditional contract language come in varying degrees of subtlety. At the unsubtle end of the spectrum is the “successors and assigns” provision. It’s utterly standard, but it’s...
View ArticleLast Post: This Blog Is Moving Back to AdamsDrafting.com
This my last post at The Koncise Drafter—I’m heading back to a redesigned AdamsDrafting.com, which is now called “Adams on Contract Drafting.” (Go here for my first post there in over two years.) And...
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