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Yes, I know he's selling a book, but if you're teaching contract drafting (or doing contract drafting), you likely will still find some useful tips on Ken Adams's blog about…
ContractsProf Blog
Debunking “Tested” Language
Contract lawyer and adjunct Penn law professor Ken Adams has a great post over at his AdamsDrafting blog on the fondness for "tested" contract language, in preference to drafting new,…
ContractsProf Blog
XML and Contract Drafting
"Markup language" is the stuff in your computer-generated documents that you don't usually see on the screen -- codes, attributes, comments, and so forth. Extensible (or "eXtensible") Markup Language (XML)…
The Trademark Blog
Text of Decision in Apple Corp v Apple Computer
This case is a must-read, and I would venture that it is a must-teach, in contract drafting classes, from now on. Read the whole thing, but if you are in…
ContractsProf Blog
Advertiser Lawsuits Against Search Engines
In the past year, advertisers have brought at least four high-stakes class action lawsuits against search engines. These lawsuits pose some interesting but basic questions about contract interpretation.Two of the…
ContractsProf Blog
PING: The Contract Drafter as Copyright ViolatorURL: http://adamsdrafting.com/system/?p=28IP: 72.51.38.136BLOG NAME: AdamsDraftingDATE: 06/01/2006 04:55:45 AMA forthcoming Missouri Law Review article by Davida Isaacs—it was featured in a recent item on the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog—discusses whether one could bring a claim for copyright infringement based on unauthorized copying of litigation doc…
Lawyers are used to treating boilerplate as a kind of public good, swiping good language from agreements whenever they can. But they may not want to be quite so free. …
ContractsProf Blog
Writing v. Interpretation
A perennial battle in the contracts field is whether courts should enforce contracts "as written," or "interpret" them to get to the "real" deal the parties intended. In a new…
ContractsProf Blog
Contract as Statute
The point of contract interpretation, we are often told, is to figure out what the parties to the contract meant. But parties to the contract frequently use standard terms that…
ContractsProf Blog
The Importance of the Right Comma
Contract lawyers know how important a misplaced comma can be. So do engineers, writes business lawyer Alexander M. Geisler of Philadelphia’s Duane Morris LLP in Mind Your Language. In fact,…
ContractsProf Blog
PING: Class Action Firm on the Receiving End of a Lawsuit–For OnceURL: http://www.companycounselor.com/2006/03/class_action_firm_on_the_recei.htmlIP: 216.92.242.28BLOG NAME: CompanyCounselorDATE: 03/01/2006 06:02:56 PMFranklin G. Snyder of the ContractsProf Blog has an interesting post about a case filed by an associate against her former (I assume) law firm, Bernstein Litowitz Berger Grossman. According to Professor Snyder, the associate alleged that she acce…
A recent British case has an interesting contract interpretation issue, decided by the court on the ground that a contrary interpretation would be “odd and uncommercial.”The case, John Roberts Architects…