Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do |  | Author: Tina L. Stark
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
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Pages: 500
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Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 073556339X
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.7302
EAN: 9780735563391
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Publication Date: June 7, 2007
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A perfect fit for the upper-level legal drafting course, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do teaches the key practices of contract drafting, with particular emphasis on how to incorporate the business deal into the contract and add value to the client¿s deal. By providing many solid examples of quality writing, the book helps students to master the basics and to incorporate similar techniques into their own drafting. This text is also appropriate for use in transactional simulation courses, transactional clinics, advanced writing courses, first-year writing courses, first year-contracts courses, and interviewing, negotiating, and counseling courses. Many great features ensure the value and reliability of this text: - PART I: introduces the building blocks of contracts and teaches the analytic skill of ¿translating the business deal into contract concepts¿ so that students learn how and why a drafter chooses a specific contract concept
- PART II: sets out the framework of an agreement and works through it from the preamble to the signature lines, discussing the business, legal, and drafting issues that occur in each part of a contract
- PART III: turns to drafting rules for good writing and to techniques for enhancing clarity and avoiding ambiguity
- PART IV: details how to look at the contract from the client¿s perspective¿what does the client want to achieve and what risks does it want to avoid¿in order to find and resolve business issues
- PART V: shows students how to integrate everything they have learned: how to organize a contract, how to use precedents, and how to review and comment on a contract
- PART VI: addresses ethical issues that arise in drafting
- PART VII: provides additional exercises
- presents a five-prong framework for considering business issues that appear in almost every transaction: money, risk, control, standards, and endgame (Chapter 17, ¿Adding Value to the Deal¿)
- includes plentiful examples of well-drafted provisions, many based on commercial agreements
- provides exercises for use in or out of class, individually or collaboratively, including contract mark-ups, new drafting, and both combined into a single exercise
- integrates a single fact pattern throughout many exercises in the book¿the purchase of a jet by a ne¿er-do-well with significant financial problems¿and varying fact patterns relating to employment relationships and to assignment and delegation provisions.
- accompanied by a Teacher¿s Manual that includes notes explaining the answers to each exercise and answers to questions that students commonly ask.
- also accompanied by a website that provides all mark-up exercises that can be projected and walked through during class, a template for formatting, and multiple versions of one of the culminating exercises so that professors can use the version best suited to their classes
An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at http://www.aspenlawschool.com/stark
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 A Must-Have for Every Transactional Attorney and Business Professional January 10, 2008
Mr. Knowlton (Phoenix, AZ USA)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
The majority of law books on the market today add more confusion and fog to understanding basic legal principles. "Hide-the-ball" as opposed to "this is how you solve this type of problem" seems to be the status quo. As my first year property law professor once said, "the moment you solve a legal problem for you client is the moment you stop getting paid." So, you can understand why most attorneys and "legal experts" play hide-the-ball. Also, one major reason for the large quantity of litigation clogging our civil courtrooms is due to poor legal drafting.
In "Drafting Contracts," author Tina L. Stark provides the best "How To" guide on the market today for drafting and understanding contracts in the United States. Ms. Stark has checklists, examples, and step-by-step instructions of how to draft a preventive legal document.
Highly reccomended.
Top Quality March 28, 2010
AS
Top quality (which is impressive considering this is a soft cover) and it arrived in plenty of time for class.
Easy to read, but detailed enough for intermediate July 10, 2010
Rochelle (Lake Leelanau, Mi)
This is a good intro to drafting contracts. Well organized chapters for the beginner and plenty of examples of right and wrong ways to write. Teaches "PLain English" contract writing, and avoids "Legalease". Has enough detail to make it interesting for someone familiar with writing contracts. I like the book, and used it in a paralegal course.
One of the best texts I have used in law school May 27, 2008
S. G. Mink (Columbus, Ohio United States)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of those rare useful law school texts. I could see myself keeping this and going back to it after I graduate and get out into practice.
 A Good Introduction to Drafting Contracts October 3, 2009
Thomas Oswald (Bristow, VA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a text for teaching Contract Drafting that fills its intended purpose very well. I recommend it highly to individuals just learning contracts.
If you have experience drafting contracts or want to improve your contract drafting skills, then I recommend Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Second Edition by Ken Adams.
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