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Legal Writing Prof Blog
“Forthwith” versus “promptly” – you decide!
By legalwriting
Here's an interesting post from AdamsDrafting in which contract drafting expert Ken Adams questions why lawyers continue to use archaic terms in their contracts like "forthwith" rather than "promptly" or…
Best Practices Construction Law
Construction Contracts and Arbitration Provisions: Is the Word “May” Mandatory? Maybe!
You don’t always say what you mean. And you don’t always mean what you say. In construction contracts, parties attempt to use plain and ordinary words to describe their respective obligations. For…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
Allegations of bad faith should be severed from an action seeking entitlement to insurance benefits.
The application to sever a bad faith issue from the main action regarding entitlement to benefits was allowed as was the application to strike the jury notice for the main…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Delaware Supreme Court Agrees with Deloitte in Partnership Dispute
Paul v. Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Del. Supr., No. 336, 2008 (May 20, 2009), read opinion here. This Delaware Supreme Court decision involves a dispute between Deloitte & Touche LLP and…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Don’t include these words in your next contract
By legalwriting
Kenneth Adams, author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (ABA Press 2008) also has a blog called, not-so-surprisingly, AdamsDrafting. Today's entry is a list of words he recommends you…
DennisKennedy.Blog
Recent Microblog Posts – April 12, 2009
From the micorblog - April 12, 2009
ContractsProf Blog
Contracts Can Be Rewritten, Says NY Times
Today's New York Times has a headline that would not have been news to Karl Llewellyn, "Contracts Now Seen as Being Rewritable." But this is probably news and definitely fit to print…
Outside Inhouse Lawyer Blog
NY Court of Appeals Addresses Interpretation of Contract with Conflicting Provisions Regarding Written Amendments
By Grace Healy
Life would be so much easier if parties who signed agreements that require written signed amendments really did sign written amendments, and, secondly, if parties signed agreements and modifications in…
Outside Inhouse Lawyer Blog
Extrinsic Evidence Allowed Where Boxes Weren’t Checked on Printed Form
By Grace Healy
When using a contract on a printed form, make sure you fill in all of the blanks. Otherwise, you may be creating a question of fact regarding the meaning of…
ContractsProf Blog
Thanks to AIG, Contract Drafting is Topic of Late Night Talk
Finally, contract drafting becomes a topic of late night television:Enjoy![Meredith R. Miller]