Monthly Archives: January 2007

In this item that he posted on his blog last November, Wayne Schiess mentions that when he was a full-time practicing lawyer, he thought he …

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St. John’s Law Review has just published my new article, Revisiting the Ambiguity of “And” and “Or” in Legal Drafting. My co-author is Alan S. …

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It’s high time I tackled warranty and the related verb to warrant. Here’s my first stab at this topic. Background In this Business Law Today …

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Fans of overkill—if you like from the beginning of time, you’ll love throughout the universe. You can find it in rights-granting language, as in the …

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In a recent post I discussed the terms hold harmless and indemnify. I noted that Black’s Law Dictionary states that the two terms have the …

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Quite a few readers of this blog have signed up to be notified by email whenever I post a new item. But I suspect that …

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I like to think that my recommendations regarding contract drafting fly under the radar—that most people who read an MSCD-compliant contract won’t find anything disconcertingly …

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Now that the holidays have come and gone, allow me to take the liberty of reminding you that my two seminars with West Legalworks are …

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I’ve never been fond of the phrase execute and deliver, so this weekend I took the opportunity to revisit it. My conclusions are modest enough. …

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One of the joys of being a contract-drafting guy is that I don’t have to dwell on the mess that results when courts have to …

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Today’s topic is warrants. By warrant, I mean an instrument granting the holder a long-term option to buy shares at a fixed price. (I discuss …

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