Dear readers, this is the last post on the AdamsDrafting blog. Although this site, and this blog, will remain up, I won’t be updating them. Instead, I’ve moved my online base to www.koncision.com, the home of my new venture, Koncision Contract Automation. Part of that site is my new blog, The Koncise Drafter. I go into greater detail in the … Read More
After deciding, about ten years ago, that I wanted to be The Contract-Drafting Guy®, one of the first things I did was contact every law-firm “knowledge management” person I could track down, so that I could discuss with them how I might help their firm put its contract-drafting process on a rational footing. The response? Lots of crickets chirping. I … Read More
A feature of my wary relationship with Twitter: When I’m on the road and should, in theory, be regaling the world with salvos of bracing tweets, it’s the last thing I’m inclined to do. I’d rather experience things a fully as I can rather than devote part of my attention to providing running commentary. (For the same reason, I’ve never … Read More
My thanks to those who commented on my draft of the copyright notice for my book The Structure of M&A Contracts. Here’s my revised version: © 2010 Kenneth A. Adams You may copy and distribute without charge this publication’s table of contents, on condition that you include the above copyright notice in any copies. You may not otherwise copy or … Read More
The annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel will soon be upon us, and I’m gearing up for my part in the panel discussion “Contract Drafting to Avoid Disputes and Inefficiency.” It’s on Tuesday, October 26, at 2:30 p.m. Because it has proved popular, ACC members will also be able to hear it by live webcast. I’ll be arriving in … Read More
Earlier this week I saw the following notice on the website of The Australian (emphasis added): GLOBAL firm Jones Day has poached Tony Wassaf from Allens Arthur Robinson and appointed him partner in the firm’s Sydney office. The energy and resources specialist has more than 25 years experience in the sector and said he was keen to work for a firm … Read More
My book The Structure of M&A Contracts will be published in two or three weeks. I’m currently torturing West with comments on the page proofs. The final bit of text that I have to prepare is the copyright notice. Here’s what it would look like if I were to base it on West’s standard copyright notice: Copyright © 2010 Kenneth … Read More
I have yet to write a review of a book on contract drafting, and I don’t expect I ever will. Any such review would inevitably be less than a full-throated endorsement. If the author is a friend, they would be disappointed; if the author isn’t a friend, they would likely be more than disappointed; and readers of the review might suspect … Read More
Longtime reader Jim Brashear, now general counsel of Zix Corporation, shared with me a series of exchanges he engaged in regarding locking, and unlocking, Word draft of contracts; I’ve copied them below. This isn’t an issue I have any experience with, as I no longer do deals, but the idea of locking Word documents strikes me as beyond pointless: It can … Read More
Recently in my contract-drafting course at Penn Law I drilled my students in the categories of contract language. (I suggest that understanding categories of contract language is essential to controlled drafting. The topic is analyzed exhaustively in MSCD chapter 2, and you can get a sense of it by looking at posts on this blog in the “Categories of Contract … Read More
