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Is It Time Again for Public In-Person “Drafting Clearer Contracts” Presentations That Are Hosted?

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It might be time to try in-person public Drafting Clearer Contracts presentations using an innovative model that worked well before the pandemic. Used to do in-person public Drafting Clearer Contracts presentations in partnership with some other organization. My partners arranged premises (usually at a hotel) and were responsible for marketing and sales. I got a cut of the proceeds. Because … Read More

More on Time Zones and References to Time in Contracts

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One of the joys of scholarship is that it offers plenty of opportunity for you to be a doofus. I’ve taken advantage of that over the years. It goes with the territory: if your scholarship is worth anything, it will venture into the unknown (unknown to you, at least), and the unknown is where you stumble. My most recent opportunity … Read More

Changes Made to the Second Printing of the Fifth Edition of MSCD!

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File this under “Better late than never.” Way late. The second printing of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting came out in spring 2024. If you have a copy of the first printing, you might want to note in it changes I made to the second printing. Here they are: As changes go, I think we can say they’re … Read More

If “Indemnify, Defend, and Hold Harmless” Isn’t Enough

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Yesterday I received from longtime reader Chris Lemens an email complaining about someone opting for indemnify, hold harmless, and exonerate. It’s bad enough to have hold harmless, not to mention defend—why add exonerate! I looked into indemnify plus exonerate, and yes, it’s a thing: But inspired by Chris, I looked for other gratuitous additions to indemnify, and I found protect: … Read More

You Can’t Count on Prompting Your Way Out of AI Dysfunction

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[Revised on 11 September 2025 to change the title and the text. The original title was If AI Gets One Thing Wrong, It Might Get Other Stuff Wrong.] Recently I saw on LinkedIn, in this post by Kara Dowdall, the following assessment of a contract: This assessment was generated by artificial intelligence. Or more specifically, by Claude, from Anthropic. I … Read More

MSCD Still Has Value as a Credential

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The image below is from my repost of a LinkedIn post by Chris Lemens, who has been reading my stuff for as long as I have written stuff. What prompted my repost was two comments Chris added to this LinkedIn post by Nada Alnajafi: So Chris makes it explicit—the simplest way to demonstrate your value to Chris would be to … Read More

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