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Contract Drafting
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GT Amsterdam Law Blog
Exit Provisions in Joint Venture & Shareholder Agreements: Lessons (to be) Learned – Looking Across the Ocean
By Thédoor Melchers, Rutger Sterk
Legal scholars have been debating the method by which contractual provisions should be interpreted in the Netherlands since 1981, when the Dutch Supreme Court rendered its landmark Haviltex decision on…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Marking Changes on the Signature Copy of a Contract
By Ken Adams
The image above is from a hotel agreement I examined as part of my LegalSifter duties. It caused me to wonder how people go about making final changes to the…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Thoughts on an IACCM Article
By Ken Adams
I noticed this article published by IACCM. It’s entitled Why Are Agreements So Hard to Understand?, and it’s by Kristian Foss, a partner in a Norwegian law firm. It prompted…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Another Steaming Helping of Syntactic Ambiguity
By Ken Adams
As someone should have said, The price of freedom from ambiguity is eternal vigilance. Today’s lesson comes to you thanks to the eternally vigilant Glenn D. West, the what-to-say yin…
CEB Blog
How to Draft a Contract with Severability in Mind
Don’t want the baby thrown out with the bathwater? Use a “severability” or a “partial invalidity” clause to prevent a court from declaring an entire contract invalid or unenforceable just…
Whitman Legal Solutions Blog
Unintended Consequences of Business Policies
Sometimes, contract provisions result in unintended consequences. In Cobras, Mortgages, and Violas: What are Your Contracts and Policies Incentivizing?, I discussed how a contract provision might incentivize (or disincentivize) human behavior.…
ContractsProf Blog
Some express condition language for you
When I teach express conditions, we talk a lot about the language that you use to create them. A recent case out of the Northern District of Ohio, Health and…
Policyholder Pulse
Dictionary Guides Court in Multimillion-Dollar Coverage Dispute
A little under two years ago, we wrote about the fatal Oxford comma—you know, the one that comes before “and” in a list—and the impact of its omission on a…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Conflicting Provisions: Seeking Examples
By Ken Adams
You’re drafting a contract, as you’re in the habit of doing. You include a waiver of jury trial, for whatever reason. And you make California law the governing law. Or…
Delaware Chancery Law Blog
Delaware Supreme Court Finds Ambiguity in Contract Terms; Overturns Lower Court’s Granting of Summary Judgment
In the recent Delaware Supreme Court decision of Sunline Commercial Carriers, Inc. v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., No. 185,2018 (Del. Mar. 7, 2019), at issue between the parties to two related contracts…