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Contract drafting is a mixture of art and skill. Effective contract drafting is concise, precise, and unambiguous. Instead of the persuasiveness of a legal brief, contract drafting is a matter-of-fact memorialization of the parties’ understandings.
Drafting contracts is one of the pleasures of practicing law. In what other profession will someone pay you by the hour to write? But if your contract ends up in court, you’d better be ready to defend your work. This article provides fifty simple tips for writing the contract that is so clear no one will want to litigate it. It’ll be the “Contract That Stays Out of Court.”
Legal services are too often a black box. You don’t know what your lawyer is doing. The lawyer doesn’t know enough about what you need. A few phone calls here, a few drafts there, and a few weeks later you have a mediocre work product, a fatty hourly bill, and you learned nothing to arm your team for the future.
Before entering into any business agreement, you’ll need to negotiate the terms. There are a multitude of negotiation books on the market. While some offer worthwhile advice, many offer dubious tips (i.e. making the other party wait an inordinately long time for a scheduled negotiation meeting, or seating the other side in a chair deliberately shorter than yours to subconsciously signal your superiority).
We hear daily that perhaps some new treatment might be the end, only to then hear conflicting opinions. Some argue and debate regarding health and safety versus economic disaster. Through all of this uncertainty, we must still advise clients, and attempt as best we can to keep business moving. Attorneys can play a very important role in helping clients maneuver by planning for the long term.
Contract drafting is a mixture of art and skill. Effective contract drafting is concise, precise, and unambiguous. Instead of the persuasiveness of a legal brief, contract drafting is a matter-of-fact memorialization of the parties’ understandings.
Drafting contracts is one of the pleasures of practicing law. In what other profession will someone pay you by the hour to write? But if your contract ends up in court, you’d better be ready to defend your work. This article provides fifty simple tips for writing the contract that is so clear no one will want to litigate it. It’ll be the “Contract That Stays Out of Court.”