On Wednesday I was pleased to receive an email from Lissa Morris. She participated in a series of Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass, and Wednesday saw the last of the eight weekly one-hour sessions in her series. Her email is below—you’ll see why I found it a tonic. In it, Lissa refers to “Team Adams.” I propose that it’s her way … Read More
If you’re weary of the shitshow, I suggest you check out the work of an exemplary public servant—the Delaware Chancery Court opinion by Vice Chancellor Laster in AB Stable VIII LLC v. MAPS Hotels and Resorts One LLC (here), issued on 30 November 2020. It’s another epic Laster opinion, weighing in at 242 pages. The dispute involves the proposed purchase of … Read More
Now hear this! If you buy A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting from the American Bar Association’s web store (here) on “Cyber Monday” (30 November 2020) and use the discount code CYBER2020, you’ll get 40% off and free ground shipping. That, my friends, is a bargain. Why would you want to buy the book? Well, the Law Society Gazette … Read More
Today we salute Meade Ali. Meade is a longtime reader, but he also happens to be a participant in one of the current series of Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass. It was in that capacity that he laid it on me: in chapter 3, in table 1, on page 52, example [1-2b] is marked with two Xs but it should in … Read More
My peeps at the ABA Section of Business Law were in a mood to have me talk about MSCD: go here for an item in Business Law Today entitled BLS Book Celebrates 16 Years in Guiding Practitioners on Contract Drafting. I tried to make it more entertaining than it might have been.
These days I live something of an incrementalist life. For example, in an overnight switch I now pour oat milk, instead of cow’s milk, on my industrial quantities of granola, but I don’t expect to give up cheese anytime soon. And in an attempt stop using so many paper towels and so much plastic wrap, I currently use sponge cloths … Read More
Amazon used to sell a Kindle version of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, but it doesn’t anymore. (Something to do with Kindle versions being vulnerable to piracy.) But you can still get MSCD on Kindle, by buying the ebook version sold by the ABA here. It’s a MOBI file, so you can transfer it to your Kindle using … Read More
An anonymous informant—oh what the heck, it was Glenn West—told me that in Channel MedSystems, Inc. v. Boston Scientific Corporation (here), an opinion issued just yesterday by the Delaware Court of Chancery, Chancellor Bouchard cites A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. More specifically, here’s footnote 236: The parties frame their arguments in terms of “breaches” of representations. The court … Read More
The current issue of the Law Society Gazette (published by the Law Society of England and Wales) contains a review of the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (here). It’s by Daphne Perry. You might recall that earlier this year Practical Law Company recorded a video of me chatting with Daphne (here). (The legal-writing world is … Read More
You have two days left—21 and 22 August—to get 25% off the ABA price for A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. That might be a better price than what Amazon is currently offering. Go here. I couldn’t help noticing that MSCD is the ABA’s biggest-selling title for 2018. I wouldn’t be surprised if that makes it one of the … Read More
