Last week, a couple of dozen participants joined me in session 2 of a public series of my online course Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass. The topic was what I call “the categories of contract language”—my framework for how to determine
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What Is a Copy-and-Paste Monkey?
By Ken Adams
Yesterday I launched an online store to sell A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting T-shirts and mugs. Why? For the heck of it. See this blog post for more. The items on sale feature, in addition to the cover…
Meet the Designer of My Monkey Illustration
By Ken Adams
In this post I discuss the illustration above. It graces one of the T-shirts and one of the mugs on offer in my new A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting merchandise store (here). I set up my store as a…
MSCD T-Shirts and Mugs? Someone Pinch Me!
By Ken Adams
Have you yearned for A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting merchandise? Well, your days of yearning are now over: go here to buy two kinds of MSCD T-shirt (both short-sleeve and long-sleeve) and two kinds of mug! Wait, that’s…
Governing-Law Provisions: The Challenge Goes Beyond Drafting
By Ken Adams
I’ve dabbled in governing-law provisions. Here are the relevant blog posts from my list of stuff I’ve written on boilerplate (here): Blog post, Including Federal Law in Governing-Law Provisions (4 June 2021) Blog post, Revisiting Governing-Law Provisions (1 Aug. 2019) Blog post, Simplifying Governing-Law Provisions,…
MSCD5: The Five Editions
By Ken Adams
The photo above shows the spines of all five editions of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. It doesn’t bring to mind anything particularly profound—just two thoughts. First, when considered from day to day, what I do has been…
In-Person Speaking Engagements: They’re Back, But Different
By Ken Adams
Not only did the pandemic upend the speaking-engagement world, I also get the sense that things won’t be going back to the way they were. For example, one organization I’ve worked with has told me they’ve had limited demand for…
MSCD5: Why It’s a Meaningful Upgrade
By Ken Adams
So the fifth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting has been unleashed. (Buy it here!) You own the fourth edition and are wondering whether you should fork over for MSCD5 US$139.95 plus any tax and shipping. If…
Inappropriately Using Possessive Pronouns with Defined Terms
By Ken Adams
This week I was noodling with some contract language, and I wrote the Company or any of its Members. That was a mistake—Member was defined to mean a member of the Company, not a member of any limited liability company.…
MSCD5: It’s Out Now!
By Ken Adams
So much for mid-April! Print copies of the fifth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting are now available for purchase from the American Bar Association, here, for US$139.95. For the next six months, that’s the only place…