Month: June 2007

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 means (1) of, involving, or based on competition and (2) likely to succeed in competition. In the following contract provision, competitive is used to express the first meaning: Executive acknowledges the highly competitive nature of … Read More

Given that I’ve been blogging for a year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to pull together in this post, in the form of “dos” and “don’ts,” some components of my online presence. The coverage is necessarily patchy, but it’s safe to say that in the past year I’ve been able to write about the issues that I feel most … Read More