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Legal Document Drafting
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LawSites
New Machine Learning Tool Helps Prevent Drafting Mistakes
In my column this week at Above the Law, I have an exclusive first look at a new product that uses machine learning to help prevent mistakes in drafting legal…
Dewey B Strategic
The First Serial Legal Entrepreneur Strikes Again: Gary Sangha, Intelligize Founder Launches LexCheck: Computational Linguistics for Legal Drafting
By Jean O'Grady
Most of the exciting new products I have seen in the past year have offered visualization or analytics features. I shouldn't be surprised that Gurinder "Gary" Sangha has resurfaced with…
The Faculty Lounge
Drafting Lessons
It all started with the committee assignment from hell. When my dean asked me co-chair the Strategic Planning Committee a few years ago, neither of us could know that it…
LawSites
Draft and Format Legal Pleadings and Briefs with DraftLaw
As if drafting a legal pleading or brief wasn't work enough, then you have to format it. That means getting the caption just right, assembling the table of contents, building…
Law Practice Tips
What if the clients decided to provide the templates for their legal work?
By Jim Calloway
Lawyers are very skilled at creating legal documents and one of the values they provide to their clients is quality documents based on research, precedent and experience. So most of…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
Drafting Resources: The ALICE Drafting Manual
By COWS
A key part of ALICE’s work involves collaborating with students to draft progressive model laws, like the ALICE Model Fair Debt Buying Practices Act. Starting the drafting process can often…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
interpreting outline format in a contract
Here's a good cautionary tale about understanding outlining and about proofreading carefully: the interpretation of a contract turned on whether "8(h)(i)" referred to a subsection of "8(h)" (the "i" as…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Tomato, Tomahto
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Last month, I posted a little blurb on Vice Chancellor Laster's denial of a motion to consolidate based in part entirely on the fact that plaintiffs had captioned the consolidated…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Helpful Drafting Tips
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Ken Adams' excellent bog, AdamsDrafting, has another good post with helpful drafting hints. This one relates to the use of "material" as a modifier in the representations and warranties. …
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Another Court Comes Out Against the Use of “And/Or” in Drafting
We've been blogging about "and/or" for a long time. Here, for example, is a post from 2007.Well another court has added its voice to the chorus of those who find…