Month: December 2007

The Benefits of Sloppy Drafting?

In his Market Movers blog, journalist Mark Salmon discusses whether there are any benefits to sloppy contract drafting. Mark quotes another blogger to the effect that sloppy drafting can represent an attempt to bury an issue in impenetrable verbiage. I added a brief comment to Mark’s post, but I’m not inclined to attempt a definitive treatment—a simpler explanation for sloppy … Read More

An Interview with Your Favorite Contract-Drafting “Guru”

The December 14, 2007, issue of the Canadian periodical The Lawyers Weekly contains an article about yours truly. Click here for a pdf copy (note that the first page is just the photo; the interview itself is on the second page). And click here for the online version of the article.

Am I Simply Expressing My “Personal Opinions”?

I’m back from another foray to Toronto, for a seminar at Osgoode Professional Development and another at a law firm. (Greetings, Toronto newcomers to this blog!) Although there’s always room for improvement, both seminars went well. But I’ve come to expect that occasionally amid the favorable evaluations will be one by a seriously unhappy participant. And that was the case … Read More

A Report on the Penn Law 2007 Contract-Redrafting Project

Each semester that I teach, I inflict a series of drafting assignments on students in my Penn Law contract drafting class. This semester, the final assignment—the grand climax!—consisted of redrafting the first five pages of a master services agreement submitted to me by a major financial-services company in response to this invitation I posted on this blog. The company—let’s call … Read More