You all know how I earn a living, but it’s a sideshow to my real passion, the time my contracts buddies and I spend in an immersive contracts virtual reality. There you might find, for example, @IPDraughts playing Hadley, @AlexHamiltonRad playing Baxendale, and me playing the crucial role of “another,” Hadley’s partner. It all takes […]

In this post from last November, I suggested that the glory days of this blog are over. That might have been a bit premature. In that post, I said that my focus will be building contracts that comply with my guidelines. I now realize—duh—that that will involve wrestling with all sorts of substantive issues. For an […]

Sporadically I hear from readers who simply want to thank me for my work. I know people read my stuff, but it’s gratifying when someone takes the time to let me know that they’ve found it worthwhile. Because it’s a particularly nice example of this sort of communication, here’s an email I received yesterday: EMAIL […]

Does contract prose matter? Of course it does. Even if you assume that the parties have notionally agreed on the terms of the deal, how you express those terms in a contract can determine how that transaction fares. But many people who work with contracts don’t realize that. Some might be contract managers who regard […]

From a reader: I can usually get opposing counsel to shut up by pointing to your blog or book. This is what progress looks like.

Above is a screenshot my daughter sent me a few days ago, showing texts she exchanged with a friend. “Hahaha” indeed. I thought of it on reading Casey Flaherty’s post touching on my work (here). Casey accurately summarizes my, uh, lack of restraint. I know some people wonder why I’m so in-your-face. A commentator on […]

While I was in London in November, I recorded a 26-minute Practical Law Company video with Daphne Perry on how to make contracts clearer. (What else did you expect!) Go here; if you don’t have a Practical Law Company account, you’ll have to sign up for a free trial to view it. I’d be happy […]

A saving grace of what I do is that I’m not trying to win a popularity contest—if you, and you, and you find value in my writings, that’s enough for me. But I can’t help but notice two kinds of people untouched by A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. First, there are know-it-alls. I […]

Over the years I’ve attended an assortment of legal conferences that feature continuing-legal-education (CLE) panel discussions. I find that I share a sentiment I’ve seen and heard expressed often enough: that despite the best intentions of the organizers and panelists, panel sessions can be dreary and not particularly helpful. Recently I posted on LinkedIn this item containing […]