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|a Espenschied, Lenne Eidson.
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|a Contract Drafting
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|b Powerful Prose in Transactional Practice, Third Edition.
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|a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Preface to 2nd Edition -- Preface to 3rd Edition -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Contract Drafting -- Introduction -- What Is Drafting? -- What Does a Transactional Lawyer Do? -- Exercise -- Focus of this Treatise -- 1.1 Understand Key Differences between Contract Drafting and Legal Writing. -- 1.2 Define the Characteristics of Excellent Drafting. -- Exercise 1.2 -- 1.3 Attend to Appearance. -- Case Study -- Chapter 2: Drafting in Transactional Practice
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|a 2.1 Explore the Status Quo of Drafting in the Legal Profession. -- Limitations of Law School Training -- The Benchmark of Subject Mastery -- 2.2 Barriers to Improvement. -- 2.3 The Strong Arm for Improvement. -- 2.4 Realize Potential Costs of Deficient Drafting. -- 2.5 Ethical Issues in Drafting. -- What Is "Competence" with Respect to Drafting a Contract? -- What Does an Incompetently Drafted Contract Look Like? -- An Incredibly Low Standard -- 2.6 Cultivate Personal Branding. -- Chapter 3: Avoid Ambiguity -- 3.1 Strive for Clarity -- Avoid Ambiguity.
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|a "Clarity," "Ambiguity," and "Vagueness" -- What Happens When Courts Encounter Ambiguity in Contracts? -- Who Knew What, and When? -- 3.2 Types of Ambiguity. -- Semantic Ambiguity -- o Patently ambiguous words -- o Latently ambiguous words -- o Usage issues -- Syntactic Ambiguity -- o Poorly organized sentences -- o Squinting modifiers -- o Misplaced modifiers -- o Dangling modifiers -- o Uncertain pronoun references -- o Prepositional phrases -- o Conjunctions -- o Only -- Contextual Ambiguity -- Exercise 3.2 -- 3.3 Balance Competence and Vagueness.
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|a 3.4 How Grammar Errors Cause Ambiguity. -- 3.5 Consider Canons of Construction. -- Be Aware of Canons but Do Not Take Shortcuts -- o No excess words -- o Noscitur a sociis -- o Ejusdem generis -- o Expressio unius est exclusio alterius -- o Contra proferentem -- o Reddendo singula singulis -- o Ut magis valeat quam pereat -- o In pari materia -- Chapter 4: Focus on Words -- 4.1 Prefer Simple Words. -- How to Draft in Plain English -- Exercise 4.1 -- 4.2 Avoid Archaic Customs. -- 4.3 Use Words Consistently. -- Best Efforts/Reasonable Efforts/Commercially Reasonable Efforts
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|a 4.4 Use "Shall" Consistently. -- The Great Debate -- Exercise 4.4 -- 4.5 Avoid These Words in Contracts. -- Ambiguous Words -- o And/or: The Janus-Faced monstrosity -- o Provisos -- o Herein -- o Notwithstanding -- Legalese -- o Here-, there-, and where- words -- o Such, said, and same -- o Foreign phrases -- 4.6 Use Defined Terms Correctly. -- Errors with Integrated Definitions -- Complete or Incomplete? -- When and How to Use a Glossary -- Are Articles Required? -- Case Study 4.6A -- Case Study 4.6B -- 4.7 Use "That" or "Which" Correctly. -- Exercise 4.7
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