Monthly Archives: March 2008

This from the Lex column in today’s Financial Times, regarding Bear Stearns and the Cerberus litigation: It is too simplistic to blame sloppy drafting for …

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Input from readers of this blog has already served to enhance the second edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. But why stop …

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Special thanks to reader Tony for reminding me of a usage that had slipped my mind: becoming party to a contract with respect to only …

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[Update March 24, 5:30PM EDT: Some people are suggesting that there's something fishy to the story of Wachtell's "mistakes." See, for example, this post at …

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I’m grateful to stalwart readers Steven Sholk and Mike Wokasch for contacting me about the Bear Stearns merger agreement. (Click here to go to a …

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I’m working on the introduction to MSCD2, and five minutes ago I wrote this: English is used in contracts around the world, and not only …

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I can think of five issues relating to how you state amounts of money in a contract. Words and Numerals Drafters will often do the …

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Most of what I do addresses how to express clearly and efficiently whatever you want to express in a contract. But that only goes so …

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I’ve written at inordinate length about how MAC provisions are used in contracts and how MAC is defined. But I don’t much get into whether, …

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[I was prompted to write this post after consulting, over the past few months, dozens of cases ostensibly involving ambiguity but in fact dealing with …

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