If you’ve read my recent posts, you might have noticed a consistent theme: does being an informed consumer of contract language matter?
If it does matter, then presumably the more ways one has to become an informed consumer of contract language, the better. Hence Drafting Clearer Contracts: On Demand, in addition to Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass and Drafting Clearer Contracts: Presentation, unless A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is by itself sufficient.
And if being an informed consumer of contract language does matter, then there would be value in an organization’s testing the proficiency of those who work with contracts. For example, if you sign up a group for Masterclass, why not give them a multiple-choice quiz afterward, to see what they got out of it? Or you could even give them sentences to revise, or ask them to draft sentences to address a given circumstance; in either case, the scoring would be by AI, vetted by humans.
Or maybe you’re hiring someone to work with your contracts, but you want to assess their drafting. I could prepare a quiz that would check how clear and modern their drafting tendencies are, without requiring them to be full-on MSCD acolytes.
All this is entirely feasible. I have a growing collection of multiple-choice quizzes, with more to come in On Demand. And the e-learning platform I use, Thinkific, allows you to integrate Brillium, which offers sophisticated options for evaluating students.
To signal that all this is feasible, see the logo at the top of this post! As we all know, if you have a logo, you’re 90% there! 🙂
So either we’re all cogs in the machine, forever in cognitive debt, or being an informed consumer of contract language matters. If it does matter, evaluation is the way to go. Email me at kadams@adamsdrafting.com.
