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: ConglomerateContract Drafting
By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring
With Afra here guest blogging about transactional law, today might be an appropriate time to consider Legal Rebel Ken Adams, who critiques the Oracle?Sun merger agreement:
"Strangely awkward and confusing prose" ... Ken could make a living trying to correct that!
This video reminds me of my aborted attempt -- with Dion Persson of Simplicity Law -- to create plain English bylaws. When we showed our concise draft to a partner, he just laughed and said he hoped we weren't planning to bill anyone for that.
Full post as published by Conglomerate on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).
Uniform Commercial Code and Contracts
Interstate commercial transactions and sale of goods in the United States
Employment Contracts
General Contract Law Principles
AnchorBank
$1.27 million in construction contract termination lawsuit.
Ram Publishing
alleging phone book advertising contract fraud.
Ellsworth School District
4.4% increase in salaries as part of contract settlement.
Expedia
$184 Million Breach of Contract Settlement Reached
Joint Venture
Gallaher Group agrees to pay Reynolds American $387 million contract dispute settlement.
Consulting Contract
Racine Unified School District agrees to pay Public Business Consulting Group a $750,000 settlement.

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Penn Law Panel Discussion on Contract Drafting at Law Firms (Including Edited Transcript)
The Dark-Blue Book: A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, by Kenneth A. Adams
Drafting Up and Extraneous Prepositions
Is Uncertainty Over the Meaning of “Occurrence” Susceptible to a Drafting Solution







