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Contract Drafting Powerful Prose in Transactional Practice, Third Edition.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Espenschied, Lenne Eidson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: La Vergne : American Bar Association, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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.
  • "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.
  • 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
  • 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