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Legal Document Drafting
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International Working Group Creates Best Practices Guide for Drafting Legal Documents
By Bob Ambrogi
An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry's first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal…
Prosecution First Blog
Diverging Definitions: Is a Range Exclusive or Inclusive of the Endpoints?
By Publisher
A patent drafter has many choices when deciding how to word a phrase that recites a range of values in an application and claims. For example, “between X and Y,”…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Webinar: Principles of Good Drafting
The International Association of Young Lawyers ("AIJA") will host a webinar on "Principles of Good Drafting" on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at 16.00 CEST (Central Europe). Click here for more…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Dual Verb Structures: “Be and Hereby Is”
By Ken Adams
In the impeachment proceedings before the U.S. Senate yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts announced that Trump “be, and he is hereby, acquitted.” BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts: "It is therefore ordered…
Adams on Contract Drafting
“Effluxion of Time”
By Ken Adams
I was frittering time away on Twitter last night, when out of the blue this tweet from @IPDpdraughts came my way: Last week I saw an “affluxion of time” in…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Kimble Center for Legal Drafting
We congratulate Western Michigan University Thomas Cooley Law School for creating the Kimble Center for Legal Drafting, named in honor of Joseph Kimble, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Cooley.The Kimble…
Whitman Legal Solutions Blog
The Art of Legal Drafting
There are many famous books about how to play the violin. The titles of two have always intrigued me: The Art of Violin Playing by Carl Flesch and the Science of Violin…
Lancaster Law Blog
Boilerplate Language – What is it Good For? (Absolutely somethin’?)
When you think of a document drafted by an attorney, what do you expect? Crisp, clean prose that conveys its meaning in as few words as possible? Probably not. Large…
Real Estate Advisor Law Blog
A Plea And/Or Request: Stop Using And/Or
University of Cincinnati Law Professor Sean Mangan does not hate many things, but ‘and/or’ has to be first on the list – along with whomever might be playing his Irish…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on DIY Estate Planning
Gerard G. Brew recently published an Article entitled, Commentary of ABA RPTE Taskforce on Do-It-Yourself Estate Planning, November/December Probate & Property (2016). Provided below is an abstract of the Article:In…