MSCD

In this post on China Law Blog, Dan Harris expresses his opinion about the third edition of MSCD. An enthusiastic thumbs-up from someone like Dan? That gets my attention.

Brian Rogers, also known as @theContractsGuy, has reviewed the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Go here to read it. I’m delighted that Brian thought it worthwhile to go through the old-fashioned work involved in writing a book review. No reviewer want to write a puff piece, and Brian is no exception. Although his review is … Read More

[Updated May 2, 2013: Well, my readership has proved immune to the attractions of half off ten copies of MSCD. Tough crowd! Anyway, thank you for indulging me in this experiment.] I’m offering up for auction one lot of ten print copies of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. I’ll be paying all proceeds to … Read More

Last week I mentioned in this post that the Delaware Supreme Court had cited A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Well, yesterday I noticed that in an opinion issued this week (here) the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had cited it too, the issue in this case being where to place the defined-term parenthetical when you create an integrated … Read More

Go here for Mark Anderson’s review of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. For regular readers of this blog and its predecessors, Mark will need no introduction. He’s an English solicitor and a leading IP lawyer; managing partner of Anderson Law LLP; and the man behind the IP Draughts blog.

The third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is now on sale, and the ABA is unleashing on the world an email campaign to that effect. The book is still technically in “pre-order” status, but copies will be in inventory next week (the week of February 11). Go to this page of the ABA Web Store to … Read More

The page of the ABA Web Store for the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (here) has just added links to PDFs of the table of contents, the preface, and the introduction. They’ll give you a good sense of the book. In particular, the preface has a short chapter-by-chapter breakdown of what has changed.

You can now order the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting through the ABA’s web store; go here. Until the book is in inventory, which should be in the first week of February, you get a 15% discount. Members of the ABA’s Section of Business Law get an additional discount. The book won’t be available on … Read More

For purposes of law books, the traditional book review is pretty much dead, as I suggested in this 2010 post. But some books manage to generate discussion online. To encourage that sort of discussion, in early February the ABA will be distributing a limited number of review copies of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. … Read More