I’ll be doing my “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar for Osgoode Professional Development in Ottawa on Monday, March 7, 2011 and in Toronto on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Go here for more information. This will be my second time in Ottawa. As for Toronto, for a while now I’ve been doing two sold-out seminars a year, with around eighty people in … Read More
A standard element of confidentiality agreements is exclusions from the definition of “Confidential Information.” They’re sufficiently inevitable that longtime reader Michael Fleming refers to them as “The Four Romanettes®.” I’ve been mulling over one of them, the exclusion for information that becomes public. Actually, that’s just one way of phrasing it. Here’s a range of alternatives: information that is or becomes … Read More
In an evaluation submitted after one of my recent speaking engagements, someone complained about how I “shamelessly” plugged my book. And in an evaluation submitted after a recent seminar, someone said, with respect to my one-minute explanation of Koncision, “Could do without the sales pitch for his company!” Given that those probably won’t be the last complaints I hear about … Read More
This April 2009 AdamsDrafting blog post is about giving notice by email. From comments to that post I learned about RPost’s Registered Email service, and I quickly added to that post an update about RPost. I’ve decided that RPost’s service adds sufficient value that I want to include it as an option in Koncision products. More specifically, when Koncision customers … Read More
I’ve switched my blogging home from this blog to The Koncise Drafter. So if you subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog, you might want to unsubscribe and go here to subscribe to the RSS feed for The Koncise Drafter. Same pointy-headed contract stuff, different URL!
I’ve noticed that in most one-way confidentiality agreements, the disclosing party is listed first in the introductory clause. That prompted me to speculate whether in other kinds of contracts there’s a generally accepted order in which the parties are listed in the introductory clause. On the other hand, there’s the urge to put your client, or your company, first. That … Read More
I addressed in this September 2009 AdamsDrafting blog post the thrilling issue of which term is preferable, confidentiality agreement or nondisclosure agreement. (I explained that I prefer confidentiality agreement.) Of course, you have various other redundant possibilities: confidential disclosure agreement, secrecy agreement, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement, proprietary information agreement … But that’s not what’s on my mind today. Instead, consider the … Read More
Via this post on the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog I learned of an opinion that the Delaware Court of Chancery issued last month. The case is Ion Geophysical Corp. v. Fletcher International, Ltd., C.A. No. 5050-VCP; go here for a copy of the decision. Section 6(b) of a stock purchase agreement between ION and Fletcher laid out a notice … Read More
Here’s another confidentiality-agreement issue that I’ve been mulling over. I don’t recall having seen it discussed in the literature. As I understand it, in a commercial context it’s commonplace for the disclosing party under a confidentiality agreement to disclose to the recipient information that the disclosing party is itself required to keep confidential under the terms of a confidentiality agreement … Read More
The ABA Journal contains this item about how Florida police are weighing possible charges against a St. Petersburg man whose motorized wheelchair collided with a scooter, killing the other driver. Apparently, the charges could range from jaywalking to reckless driving, depending on whether the wheelchair is considered a motor vehicle. What bearing does this have on contract drafting? It’s not much … Read More
