I’ve long been familiar with two big names in logic-driven document assembly, namely HotDocs, by LexisNexis, and DealBuilder, by Business Integrity. But over the past …
Eric Goldman—he of the Technology & Marketing Law Blog and Goldman’s Observations Blog—recently told me about an interesting case, EEOC v. Regal-Beloit Corporation, 2007 U.S. …
During the term of this agreement seems an innocuous enough phrase, but more often than not it’s redundant. The default rule is that contract provisions …
In my recent article on using wikis in the contract-drafting process, I suggested that a simpler way to capture the collarborative aspect of wikis without …
Here are some examples, drawn from the SEC’s EDGAR database, of provisions containing the phrase unless the context otherwise requires: Unless the context otherwise requires, …
The doublet costs and expenses occurs routinely in contracts. Here’s an example selected at random from the SEC’s EDGAR database: If action is instituted to …
The word competitive is routinely misused in contracts. That comes as no surprise, given that it’s routinely misused in legal and business writing generally. Competitive …
In addition to Ken’s posts from February 2013, this blog contains Ken’s posts from The Koncise Drafter (from December 2010 to February 2013) and from the AdamsDrafting blog (from May 2006 to December 2010).
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