Topic
Contract Drafting
937 published works
Adams on Contract Drafting
The Volokh Conspiracy Publishes My New Article About a Comma
By Ken Adams
Thanks to a tip from Glenn West, I heard of the decision of the Florida District Court of Appeal in Treasure Coast Classical Academy, Inc. v. Optima Foundation, Inc., No.…
Percipient
Beyond the Prompt: Scaling AI Contract Review Consistency With Redline Playbooks
The typical contract redlining process in an organization involves multiple attorneys and hours of time, and it often produces inconsistent results. Two experienced attorneys may take different approaches to aligning…
Adams on Contract Drafting
A New Kind of Syntactic Ambiguity
By Ken Adams
Friends, today is a special day, as I’m able to introduce to you a new kind of syntactic ambiguity. (As A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting says, “Syntactic ambiguity…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Two Mistakes in a Contract-Drafting Textbook
By Ken Adams
As I mentioned in this blog post, I’ve been leafing through some textbooks intended for teaching contract drafting. One of them is Tina L. Stark & Monica L. Llorente, Drafting…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
CMA issues guidance on unfair contract terms
On 22 July 2026, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued new guidance on the unfair contract terms provisions in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (the Act). The CMA has…
Whitman Legal Solutions Blog
John Cage Meets Goldilocks – Deciding Much Detail Should be in a Contract
Like many classical music compositions, John Cage's ORGAN²/ASLSP has a tempo marking for its title. What's unusual is that the title stands for "As Slow as Possible." Cage is known…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Revisiting “Date” and “Day”
By Ken Adams
A few days every month, I prepare videos for Drafting Clearer Contracts: On Demand, my library of videos and automated quizzes. To do that, I revisit what MSCD has to…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Language of Inaction?
By Ken Adams
Crazy things are afoot in the categories of contract language. In addition to my considering creating “language of state of mind” (see this post), I’m now considering creating another new…
SpotDraft Blog
On-Device AI for Contract Review in 2026 for legal teams
By SpotDraft
A practical 2026 guide to on-device AI for contract review: what it means, why it matters for data privacy and how to evaluate vendors on this dimension.
Adams on Contract Drafting
An Exception to the Rule Against Also Stating Without Initial Capitals a Word or Phrase That Is Otherwise Used as a Defined Term
By Ken Adams
Above is section 6.10 of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Note the first sentence: Make sure all instances of a defined term use initial capitals. If one doesn’t,…