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Contract Drafting
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ContractsProf Blog
Judge Newsom’s Entertaining Insurance Law Opinion
I first noticed Judge Kevin Newsom of the Eleventh Circuit (right) last year, when we wrote about his decision in the Florida NetChoice case. I liked the substance of that opinion. …
Adams on Contract Drafting
The Two Rules of Using “This” in Contract Drafting
By Ken Adams
Yesterday I saw this tweet by Kaitlyn Fydenkevez: I have spent a large portion of my day fighting over whether a particular contract should refer to itself as “this Form”…
Sidley Austin Blog
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms That “and” Is a Word of Many Meanings
By Ian M. Ross, Nicole K. Chipi
Last year we explained how a word as common as the conjunction “and” could be subject to different interpretations in a contract. See Grammarian’s Delight: It Depends On What The…
Reinventing Professionals
High-Efficiency AI and Contract Review
By Ari Kaplan
I spoke with Francisco Webber, the co-founder of Austrian AI company Cortical.io, which develops intelligent document processing solutions for unstructured text supported by natural language processing. We discussed high-efficiency artificial…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co v. YES Bank Limited: The Commercial Court Flubs Syntactic Ambiguity
By Ken Adams
Compared with what was in the fourth edition, chapter 12 (Syntactic Ambiguity) of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting has changed little. (I added a section on delimiting commas…
Adams on Contract Drafting
The Blue-Sky Bolt and the Role of Insight in the Legal Realm
By Ken Adams
Recently someone pointed out a typo in the fifth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. (More about that thrilling topic soon!) In an email to them, I…
ContractsProf Blog
Warner Bros. to Paramount: Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home!
I learned from OCU 1L Austin Manley that the South Park guys seem to have sold exclusive rights to their show twice. Well, maybe not. It's a matter of interpretation. As…
Allens Insights
Laundy v Dyco carrying on a business when the law changes
By Allens
Contracts must account for changes in the legal environment 6 min read The High Court, in recently considering the construction of a contract for the sale of the property and…
Adams on Contract Drafting
In Contract Drafting, As in Everything Else, Pain Is a Precursor to Change
By Ken Adams
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…
Adams on Contract Drafting
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.…