Recently I saw this tweet by @strowhiro: Hey, #lawtwitter. Contracts with a defined terms section AND other terms defined throughout: fine or sloppy? — Michelle Strowhiro (@strowhiro) October 19, 2022 It’s a great question, but I thought that the odds…

Last week I noticed Will EY Law Change The Legal Delivery Paradigm?, by Mark Cohen. It’s about EY, the multinational professional services partnership. Here are the first two paragraphs: EY’s leadership recently green lighted a major restructuring, ending months of…

I’ve been wading through the page proofs of MSCD5. I’m devoting more time to this part of the process than I have with previous editions. I’ve even spotted a few glitches that had slipped into the fourth edition. So things…

The other day I saw this in a confidentiality agreement: You could express the same concept using efforts: The Recipient shall use reasonable efforts to prevent disclosure or use of Confidential Information other than as authorized in this agreement. Or…

One of many additions to the fifth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is an expanded discussion of including. “Great,” I hear you say, deadpan. “Swell.” I assure the jaded among you that this new section is…

In calling this post The Myth of the Lone Pizza Genius, I’m not suggesting that such a myth is widely held. Instead, it’s just a notion that casually lodged itself in my mind. In addition to baking pizza, I’ve had…

Periodically, I proclaim how getting rid of the copy-and-paste system for drafting contracts will require change at the wholesale level. In other words, it will require a new system that offers a compelling alternative to copy-and-paste. I wrote about that…