Sentences with phrase «draft contract language»

Drafted contract language, memos, and notices on behalf of Police Commissioner and Chief Administrative Officer.

Not exact matches

The language of mainstream contract drafting is dysfunctional, so anyone using document assembly for contract drafting faces a serious garbage - in, garbage - out problem.

I learned a lot about contract drafting and language that protected the legal interests of American Rivers.

Think of every contract you have ever drafted where you just grabbed some boilerplate language like this:

Rather, the chambers judge held that any ambiguity in the contract's language should be interpreted in the employee's favour since the employer had drafted the language.

I'm big on plain language contract drafting, and so he's all about that.

More recently, Professor Ken Adams, Adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, through his blog, Adams on Contract Drafting, his book, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (currently in its 3rd edition), and his many seminars, has been doing what he can to advance the cause of what he prefers to call drafting in «standard English» (rather than «plain language» drafting).

I teach contract drafting and usually those I teach prefer simple language over legalease.

Further to Simon Fodden's post below on plain language drafting, Michael Rappaport has a nice article here in the current The Lawyer's Weekly (Canada) interviewing Kenneth Adams, the author of a Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (2004) and other material on legal drafting.

The root cause is that because any transaction will closely resemble previous transactions, drafting has become largely an exercise in regurgitation, with most contract language being given a pass.

The guide aims to create plain language, modular contracts that are easy to draft and review.

You'd have to adopt a style guide for contract language; train your personnel in drafting and reviewing contracts consistent with the style guide; and overhaul your templates so they're consistent with the style guide.

In doing so, she undertakes and oversees due diligence assessments, retains and works with consultants, engineers and other environmental professionals to quantify potential liabilities, and drafts and negotiates contract language to effectively allocate the risk of environmental liabilities between the parties.

You can also outsource template drafting but then you need an authority on that type of contract, that's why Ken has launched Koncision Automation to provide an expert insight to templates to use a 21st century technology with 21 century language.

Lederman says that while lawyers drafting contracts will want to be more precise in the language of a contract, it doesn't mean they will ever be ironclad.

Although the example listings in our contract drafting legal specialist resume sample are brief, ideally your job listings should consist of five to six bullets that begin with strong action verbs and continue to describe the impact of your contributions in tightly crafted language.

Risk reducer: If there's no legal language in your company's collection of standard forms referencing what the buyer or seller wants in the contract — and in Drayna's example there wasn't — the most prudent course of action is for the associate to advise the buyer or seller to hire a lawyer to draft language, says Drayna.