Corporate & Securities Law

Drafting by Committee? Not So Good

By Ken Adams

Today Rees Morrision posted this item on his blog. It makes the point that groups are good for sharing information but not so good for making decisions. It also quotes an academic as saying that “Groups are not helpful in getting people to make better decisions, but they?re helpful in getting people to feel more confident about the decisions they?ve made.”

That’s why all sorts of organizations make a hash of their template-drafting initiatives yet feel entirely virtuous about their work.

Full post as published by AdamsDrafting on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).