One function of this blog is to give me a forum for screwing up without embarrassing myself too much. In this blog post from last month, I took a second crack at analyzing arising out of or relating to. Further reflection revealed that effort to be, well, lame, and I’ll be deleting it in the next few days. Below is another … Read More
I’m delighted that on Monday, October 19, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., I’ll be in Boston, taking part in a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel. The session is entitled “Self-Service Contract Creation: Providing Better Service in a World of Frozen Budgets”—click here for more information. It’s being presented in cooperation with my … Read More
I recently encountered the word draftsman in a law review article. That prompted me to give some thought to use of the word. It’s certainly commonplace—a search of the TP-ALL database on Westlaw (“All Law Reviews, Texts & Bar Journals”) retrieved some 5,000 articles written in the last three years that use it. I prefer to avoid gender-specific language. And … Read More
Yesterday I posted two items (this one on and and or, this one on the passive voice) that were rather more harum-scarum than my normal offerings, in that I ended up quickly making significant changes in response to reader comments. (Thank you, all.) Having previously limited myself to the building blocks of contract language, I’m now working to bring the … Read More
