You accept that your templates could be substantially improved, in terms of both what they say and how they say it. (You don’t think that’s the case? I’d be happy to show you.) And you’ve accepted my axiom that the task of coming up with optimal contract language is best left to specialists. But bringing someone in to fix your templates … Read More
Even if you’re aware of what I do, I suspect you haven’t considered whether to hire me to redo your template contracts. Allow me to make that easier by breaking down for you the factors to bear in mind. Let’s think of them as questions. What’s the first question? Well, I suggest it shouldn’t be, “Can Adams improve our templates?” Unless your … Read More
[Updated 18 August 2021: I belatedly remembered that I refer to this page at the end of the introduction to the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. It might have been relevant then, but now it is irrelevant. For one thing, I no longer do consulting. My automated NDA is now, once more, in the garage, … Read More
Last Saturday I was at the Lahti X-Treme Car Show in Finland (more about that here). I was having lunch in the VIP area with a contingent from the U.S. embassy when in sauntered Richard Rawlings, the big celebrity guest, fresh from a couple of hours of signing books, brochures, model cars, and assorted limbs. Richard is host of the … Read More
A little over a year ago I launched my Adams Contracts Consulting business. As I expected, I now spend an increasing amount of time on my consulting work. I need someone who can help me with it. The work will involve preparing contract templates for clients and, in due course, helping to build automated templates using Contract Express. It will begin slowly, on a … Read More
You’re a client. I give you my redraft of one of your templates. We discuss my version. During those discussions, you ask that I restore the capital A to this agreement. Here’s what MSCD 2.110–.110 says about that: It’s common practice to create in the introductory clause the defined term this Agreement. … But this defined term is unnecessary: the definite article this in … Read More
It’s not particularly elegant, but the notion of eating your own dog food is a recognized metaphor in the tech world. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it: Above is part of a post on Contract-Automation Clearinghouse. To see the rest, go here. Contract-Automation Clearinghouse is where I now put my posts on contract automation and related topics.
Some of you will recall that in December 2010 I launched Koncision Contract Automation and the accompanying website. I shut it down in June 2014, but it was irrelevant long before that. A few days ago I announced a new business, Adams Contracts Consulting. The factors behind the demise of Koncision are the same as the factors behind my starting Adams … Read More
A few months ago someone contacted me about redrafting their organization’s template confidentiality agreement. It was a simple enough matter, and after some back and forth, I was ready to start. Then I had a phone call with a colleague of my initial contact. I soon gathered that this person didn’t have in mind my redrafting the template. Instead, I would … Read More
I’ve created a new business, Adams Contracts Consulting LLC. We help companies make their template contracts clearer, more concise, and more effective. We also help companies automate their templates, using ContractExpress. Why a new business? After all, I’ve long had “Consulting” as an item on the menu bar of this site. I’m putting those activities in a new business simply because … Read More
