He serves on the ISBA Task Force on MDP and the Committee on Professional Conduct. Informal discussions will follow the speakers' remarks. Refreshments and appetizers will be served. My answer to the question has always been that such a contract is not ambiguous, it is inconsistent. But some judges have described that kind of contract as ambiguous.
Appellate courts agree.
In Hampton Foods, Inc. v. Wetterau Finance Co.,Mo. Similar language appears widely in appellate court opinions. So Professor Pearson's initial conclusion, on further investigation, turned out to be correct. All these titles avoid the problem of the correct sex to use. Gertrude Block is Lecturer Emerita at the University of Florida College of Law.