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My Remarks on Receiving the Golden Pen Award

Yesterday I attended the biennial conference of the Legal Writing Institute, where I received the 2014 Golden Pen Award. My thanks to LWI members in general, and president-elect Linda Berger in particular, for their generous hospitality. (That’s Linda and me to the right.) If you’d like to know why I received this award, go here. And below is the text … Read More

When Entire-Agreement Provisions and Click-Wraps (or Browse-Wraps) Collide

Occasionally I offer up an inquiry from a reader and step aside. This is one of those occasions. Blake Reagan is a lawyer who works as a contract administrator for The University of Tennessee. I got to meet him at my recent “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar in Los Angeles. He’s a thoughtful and no-nonsense guy, so I paid attention when he … Read More

“Person”

The inimitable A. Wright Burke, M. Phil., added to this recent post on the word anyone the following comment (here): People are entities! There are natural entities (“individuals”) and artificial entities (e.g., corporations, khanates). People are “legal entities,” too. So the question is whether “anyone” refers only to natural persons or also to artificial persons. … If “anyone” is thought risky, “any … Read More

What Does It Mean to Enter into a Contract “With” Someone?

I was pleased that Mack Sperling, who maintains the blog North Carolina Business Litigation Report, told me about this post on his blog. It discusses a recent North Carolina case that turns on what it means to enter into a contract “with” someone. Here are the relevant facts, as reported by Mack: HCIM, one of the Defendants, had acquired a … Read More

My New Article on Termination-on-Bankruptcy Provisions

It used to be that I’d wait impatiently for some article that I’d written to be published. “Perhaps this time,” I’d think, “they’ll sit up and take notice!” It’s probably a good sign that I plumb forgot that my most recent article was published last week. It’s entitled Termination-on-Bankruptcy Provisions: Some Proposed Language. It’s in the most recent issue of … Read More