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Contract Drafting
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Adams on Contract Drafting
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…
Commercial Case Notes
Court Interprets Term “Affiliate” to Extend the Benefits of a Contract to a Non-Signatory
By John Lundin
On October 7, 2025, the First Department issued a decision in Ali Baba Hotel Corp. v. Prose, 2025 NY Slip Op. 05451, interpreting the term “affiliate” to extend the benefit…
Florida Construction Legal Updates
THE PREFATORY WHEREFORE CLAUSES IN AGREEMENTS MATTER
When drafting agreements, the language matters. This is because agreements are not intended to be construed in a vacuum. Sections of an agreement are not to be interpreted in isolation.…
Commercial Case Notes
Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing Cannot Be Used to Imply Contract Term the Parties Agreed to Omit
By John Lundin
On September 24, 2025, the Second Department issued a decision in Wymara, Ltd. v. Gansevoort Hotel Group, LLC, 2025 NY Slip Op. 05124, holding that the covenant of good faith…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Building Consistent AI for Contract Review with LegalOn’s Daniel Lewis
By Greg Lambert, Marlene Gebauer
Daniel Lewis joins us this week to trace a path from Ravel Law to LexisNexis to LegalOn, with a throughline of data-driven thinking and practical outcomes for lawyers. Stanford roots…
BuildSmart
How Government Contractors Should Prepare for and Deal with a Shutdown
By Aron C. Beezley, Nathaniel J. Greeson
As Congress continues to grapple with budget deadlines, the possibility of a government shutdown is never far from the minds of federal contractors. Unlike many federal employees, who may be…
Adams on Contract Drafting
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…
ContractsProf Blog
Teaching Assistants: George Cohen on Cardozo’s Sun Printing Opinion
It is always enticing when a scholar I admire writes about a case, like Sun Printing v. Remington Paper, which I teach and find compelling. In this case, the subject is…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Today’s podcast episode: Do Arbitrators Follow the Law? A New Study Provides Data, But the Debate Continues
Today’s episode of the Consumer Finance Monitor podcast is centered around a novel and thought-provoking article by David Horton, a professor of law at the University of California, Davis. The…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
“Let’s Eat Grandma” – How Commas Can Ruin or Make Your Case (and What To Do About It!)
By Calvin To
The Case of the Comma Remember the online meme comparing “Let’s eat grandma!” with “Let’s eat, grandma!”? Well, here we have the legal version of it. A judge in Nova…