Month: November 2017

Jason Steed Reviews MSCD4

Jason Steed is a Twitter personality who moonlights as an appellate lawyer. (Kidding!) Go here for his positive review of the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Jason’s review prompted a few thoughts. For the heck of it, here they are: Regarding what’s different about the fourth edition, the simplest metric is that it has a … Read More

When Entry into One Contract Is Consideration for Entry into Another Contract

Thanks to that one-man research department, Steven Sholk, I learned of this article on Law360, entitled 3 Contract Drafting Myths Debunked. It’s about TA Operating LLC v. Comdata Inc., C.A. No. 12954-CB (Del. Ch. 11 Sept. 2017) (PDF here). It serves as a reminder that if you regard two contracts as a package deal, with performance under one being conditioned on … Read More