Consulting
Companies that enter into hundreds or thousands of contracts every year face a major challenge how to develop effective form contracts; how to keep them effective over time; how to ensure consistency (in terms of substance and language) across the range of form contracts; and how to manage the contract-drafting process.
As the leading authority on the language of business contracts, Ken Adams is uniquely suited to help companies handle this task. He quickly learns about your business and the transactions to be addressed in your contracts, and then he either writes new contracts or overhauls existing ones, as necessary adjusting the structure, upgrading the format, eliminating archaisms, redundancies, and inconsistencies, and using language that is more modern and concise.
When Ken revises existing contracts, the cumulative effect of his changes is invariably dramatic in terms of clarity, concision, and coherence. And an incidental benefit is that the revised contracts generally contain 10% to 20% fewer words without losing anything of substance.
Ken believes that avoiding the pitfalls of contract drafting (wasting time and money, omitting or botching important deal points) is as much a function of drafting process as it is a matter of cleaning up the language of any given contract. He can assist you in deciding how to manage the entire contract life cycle, from drafting, though negotiation and signing, to archiving.
Ken is in a position to train your contract personnel in the principles that he uses in revising your contracts. And they would be able to use as a resource his book A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Combining redrafting with training and ongoing guidance increases the odds that your company will be able to maintain the efficiencies gained through redrafting.
