SHOP and BUY - A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06634 EAN: 9781590313800 ISBN: 1590313801 Label: American Bar Association Manufacturer: American Bar Association Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2005-04-25 Publisher: American Bar Association Studio: American Bar Association
Customer Rating: Summary: useful, well laid out; but often I don't follow given rule Comment: really helpful in most situations. When I disagree with a given rule for a specific situation, it usually gives enough information for me to select and justify another format. Customer Rating: Summary: Quick read with helpful tips Comment: This book provides a good desk reference for best practices in contract drafting. Although focused primarily on commercial transactions, the tips are helpful for all areas of contracts. Highly Recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: So-so Comment: Bought this book after reading some of the author's articles and the rave reviews here. It is more like a style guide (it focuses on tenses, font, grammar) than a substantive legal drafting guide. It is very nitpicky regarding the English language, to the level where if you adhered to every rule, you would be closer to a fuddy duddy phD candidate type than a practitioner. It reminds me of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. I much prefer Charles Fox's Working With Contracts - What Law School Doesn't Teach You, which is more practice-oriented and actually explains each clause, and its the purpose and meaning. Every junior associate should receive Fox's book as a present when they start their first year. Customer Rating: Summary: It could threaten my job security... Comment: As a contract litigation attorney I'd be worried if more people were to buy this book. Luckily for me the vast majority of lawyers and people who draft agreements apparently have not. Thus, I'm not worried about my job. It was actually an enjoyable read, too. Customer Rating: Summary: Must Have! Comment: Any attorney actively involved in the drafting of contracts must have this manual. I am general counsel for a product development and manufacturing firm and have been actively using the guidance of Ken Adams' book for several months now on a variety of contracts, including overhauling our standard contracts. Not only is it improving my efficiency, but the feedback from members of our company is very positive. I cannot state it any better than Ken does in his preface to this manual. If you agree with the premise of his preface, as I do, then you will find this to be an invaluable and indispensable tool.
This comprehensive, accessible guide addresses how to draft clear and effective contracts. The focus of this manual is not what provisions to include in a given contract, but instead how to express those provisions in prose that is free of the problems that often afflict contracts. This manual highlights common sources of inefficiency, dispute, and misunderstanding and recommends how to avoid them.
