It’s all Eric Goldman‘s fault. In this comment to a 2010 post in which I lamented the demise of traditional reviews of law books, Eric suggested that if I want to see reviews of books on contract drafting, I have to be willing to do some reviewing myself. That was the thin end of the wedge. Now, I’m sometimes too … Read More
For purposes of law books, the traditional book review is pretty much dead, as I suggested in this 2010 post. But some books manage to generate discussion online. To encourage that sort of discussion, in early February the ABA will be distributing a limited number of review copies of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. … Read More
Finally, the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is at the printer. It took long enough: Four years of preparing blog posts that were first-draft versions of much that’s new in the book. Two months solid of writing and collating. Three months of tweaking the manuscript and addressing an array of all sorts of comments from … Read More
[Revised January 9, 2013, to make my point a little clearer and to trim away some invective.] Thomson Reuters has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Practical Law Company, “the London-based provider of practical legal know-how and workflow tools to law firms and corporate law departments.” Go here for the announcement. Apparently, PLC has locked up the … Read More
In recent weeks I haven’t posted much, if anything, on specific issues of contract language, and I won’t be doing so for a while. Here’s why: The third edition of MSCD will be coming out in February. The last thing I feel like doing right now is any research that might suggest last-minute changes. Once the third edition has come out, … Read More
