Monthly Archives: March 2007

I’m generally pretty quick about following up on reader leads. But today’s post relates to a reader email from almost three years ago. In this …

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A reader passed on to me a “Commercial Contracts Newsflash” that he received from the international law firm Ashurst. It concerns Rhodia International Holdings Ltd. …

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A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting refers only once to the verb acknowledge. Heck, it doesn’t even merit an entry in the index. I’ll …

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David Munn brought to my attention an interesting case dealing with how to incorporate into an agreement provisions contained in some other document. The Case …

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When you revise a draft contract, you want to be able to show the changes. You can do that using Word’s “Track Changes” feature, or …

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I’m looking for a company that would be interested in participating in a redrafting exercise that will form part of my Fall 2007 contract drafting …

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The PDF brochure for my London, Paris, and Frankfurt seminars in April is now up. You can click here to go to it, and there …

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Hot on the heels of last month’s or case comes one about and. The article I wrote with Alan Kaye on the ambiguity of and …

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I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be giving my seminar “Contract Drafting—Language and Layout” in London on April 17, in Paris on April 19, and …

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A recent post on the Exari document assembly blog suggests that document assembly is increasingly being used to generate business contracts. (Thanks to Dennis Kennedy …

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Consider the following quotation: “We see partners who are doing the same work they did as associates,” he says. “If they’ve been promoted, why should …

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