Contract drafting
Subtitle: powerful prose in transactional practice
By: Lenné Eidson Espenschied.
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781604427950
Subjects: Contracts -- United States -- Language; Legal composition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to legal drafting; title: Drafting in transactional practice zero-based drafting; title: Draft to fit the transaction; title: Components of a contract; title: Understand the transaction; title: Avoid ambiguity; title: Focus on word selection; title: Use words consistently; title: Focus on sentence structure; title: Identify common sources of syntactic ambiguity; title: Start from a winning position; title: Eliminate contextual ambiguity; title: Consider these issues; title: Edit or review effectively.