Transactional Drafting

Thi] book explains the contract drafting process in terms of content and style, demonstrating through authentic examples how to revise template documents to produce effective and complete contracts that protect the client's interests. [This book also explains] negotiating and drafting indemnification provisions, even in low leverage situations. It...explains how to prevent ambiguity in contracts by using better words, developing a consistent strategy for expressing key concepts, crafting strong sentences, and organizing content properly.

Teaches the key practice skill of contract drafting, with emphasis on how to incorporate the business deal into the contract and add value to the client's deal.

This manual's focus remains how to express contract terms in prose that is free of the archaisms, redundancies, ambiguities, and other problems that afflict traditional contract language. [The author] highlights common sources of confusion and recommends clearer and more concise alternatives. This manual is organized to facilitate...reference, and it illustrates its analysis with numerous examples.

Modern Legal Drafting provides a comprehensive, authoritative guide to drafting legal documents in effective, plain English. It combines a practical focus with the legal principles that underpin the use of plain language in law. It takes an international approach, drawing upon case law and statutes from England, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Legal Drafting in a Nutshell, 4th Edition, provides guidance on producing transactional documents, contracts, instruments, legislation, and regulations that solve existing problems and prevent future problems. The book provides both a large scale, macro overview of the drafting process as well as small scale, micro focused discussion of the mechanics of legal documents at the sentence, word, and punctuation level.

This book is a practical, brief, to the point text covering the fundamental working parts of a contract and how one should be prepared. It is designed to enable students to analyze the basic structure of contracts and other deal documents and develop the macro and micro techniques used to efficiently create those documents with precision and clarity.