Sporadically, I’m hired to help people in a fight over confusing contract language. That kind of work isn’t my bread and butter, but I should do a lot more of it. Many courts are bad at making sense of confusing
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Who’s Responsible for the Blowhard’s Initial Capital? The Legalistic Mind, or Academia?
By Ken Adams
I’ve explained elsewhere that it’s inane to use an initial capital A in a contract’s references to that contract (as in this Agreement). Go here for my 2018 blog post on; for the definitive take, see MSCD. But I’ve been…
More on Time Zones and References to Time in Contracts
By Ken Adams
One of the joys of scholarship is that it offers plenty of opportunity for you to be a doofus. I’ve taken advantage of that over the years. It goes with the territory: if your scholarship is worth anything, it will…
Changes Made to the Second Printing of the Fifth Edition of MSCD!
By Ken Adams
File this under “Better late than never.” Way late. The second printing of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting came out in spring 2024. If you have a copy of the first printing, you might want to note in…
If “Indemnify, Defend, and Hold Harmless” Isn’t Enough
By Ken Adams
Yesterday I received from longtime reader Chris Lemens an email complaining about someone opting for indemnify, hold harmless, and exonerate. It’s bad enough to have hold harmless, not to mention defend—why add exonerate! I looked into indemnify plus exonerate, and…
If AI Gets One Thing Wrong, It Might Get Other Stuff Wrong
By Ken Adams
Recently I saw this assessment of a contract: This assessment was generated by artificial intelligence. Or more specifically, by Claude, from Anthropic. I have no objection to what it says. Instead, what’s notable about it is how many abstract nouns…
You Can’t Count on Prompting Your Way Out of AI Dysfunction
By Ken Adams
[Revised on 11 September 2025 to change the title and the text. The original title was If AI Gets One Thing Wrong, It Might Get Other Stuff Wrong.] Recently I saw on LinkedIn, in this post by Kara Dowdall, the…
MSCD Still Has Value as a Credential
By Ken Adams
The image below is from my repost of a LinkedIn post by Chris Lemens, who has been reading my stuff for as long as I have written stuff. What prompted my repost was two comments Chris added to this LinkedIn…
The Next “Drafting Clearer Contracts” Presentation Is on 23 and 24 July 2025
By Ken Adams
The next Drafting Clearer Contracts presentation is on 23 and 24 July 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. Eastern Time (US). Go here for more information Why should you consider registering? Because as I explain in this 2024 blog…
Lawyers Pay Attention to Caselaw, Unless They Don’t: A Thought Prompted by Glenn West’s Response to Chowdhury, Chudkowski & Gulati
By Ken Adams
In a previous blog post (here), I offer thoughts on a law review article, Tara Chowdhury, Faith Chudkowski & Mitu Gulati, The Form Knows Best, 79 U. of Miami L. Rev. 607 (2025). The same issue of that law review…