One of my corporate partners, Thomson Reuters Asia, is contemplating something old-fashioned—having me do Drafting Clearer Contracts presentations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, and Mumbai (details below). Yes—really. I offer Drafting Clearer Contracts training online, but in-person presentations
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Guiding companies around the world, Adams Contracts Consulting LLC develops clear effective templated contracts. Automating templates, through an annotated online questionnaire is just one way they assist companies save time, money, and reduce risk. Acknowledged internationally as the leading authority on contract language, Ken Adams the president and founder, developed the groundwork of the company’s efforts through his extensive expertise.
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It’s Never Good to Use “Shall Be” in an Autonomous Definition
By Ken Adams
In a LinkedIn post, I challenged readers to find for me a contract that used shall be or will be in creating an autonomous definition. I wasn’t surprised that I was the only entrant in that thrilling competition. I submitted…
On-Demand “Drafting Clearer Contracts” Training: Sign Up for News!
By Ken Adams
My notion of offering an on-demand module of my Drafting Clearer Contracts training is slowly shifting from a gleam in my eye to reality. Videos and Quizzes This module will consist of 200+ short videos, some proportion of them accompanied…
The Form Is Copy-and-Pasted, and So Is Everything Else: Thoughts Prompted by Chowdhury, Chudkowski & Gulati
By Ken Adams
Recently I encountered this law review article: Tara Chowdhury, Faith Chudkowski & Mitu Gulati, The Form Knows Best, 79 U. of Miami L. Rev. 607 (2025). In this post, I explain two quibbles. I also suggest that the reality the…
A Note from a Grateful Reader, and My Reply
By Ken Adams
The image below contains the text of an email message I received from a law student yesterday. In case it’s of interest, here’s how I responded: Hi [Name]. Fortunate is the author who gets this sort of message from a…
Eliminating Mistakes and Ambiguity from Contracts: Some Thoughts on a Recent Glenn West Article
By Ken Adams
Glenn West has been pumping out articles so fast that I haven’t kept up. I’ve started looking at the backlog; if I have anything to add, I’ll do so. That’s what I’m doing now, because this post was inspired by…
The Legalistic Mind Can Rationalize Anything
By Ken Adams
If a contract usage has been around long enough and appears in enough contracts, you’ll find people to defend it, no matter how archaic or otherwise nonsensical it is. A case in point: yesterday Ryan McCarl did this LinkedIn post…
A New Variant of Ambiguity of the Part Versus the Whole
By Ken Adams
Thanks to longtime tipster Steven Sholk, I learned of the recent opinion of the First Circuit in Dahua Technology USA, Inc. v. Feng Zhang (here). The language at issue is in the image at the top of this post, but…
Using Only Words to State Numbers?
By Ken Adams
Over the years, I’ve written plenty about the practice of expressing numbers using both words and digits, as in five (5) days’ notice. In MSCD, I recommend using words for one through ten and digits for 11 and up (with…
More Public “Drafting Clearer Contracts” Training
By Ken Adams
Now that all my scheduled public Drafting Clearer Contracts training has wrapped up, I’ve been asked politely when I’m going to get my act together and schedule more training. Well, that time is now! Here’s what I’ve just scheduled: For…