Seminars

Full-day Seminars:

Nuts & Bolts of Contract Drafting is a “how to” drafting program relevant to lawyers entering any area of transactional practice, including corporate, mergers and acquisitions, business law, and intellectual property, to name just a few. The program begins with a discussion of the legal context of drafting, revealing outside forces that may dictate the way specific terms of the agreement are drafted or interpreted. The program examines the meaning and implications of common performance and boilerplate provisions and includes specific drafting techniques and strategies that beginning lawyers can implement immediately to draft legal documents with confidence. Attendees will learn how:

· to mark up a prior draft to fit the current transaction;

· to determine whether specific provisions are required, essential, recommended, or optional;

· to make seemingly minor edits to shift risk from one party to the other;

· to use the right words to create the intended legal consequences;

· to avoid ambiguous phrasing traps;

and much more!

Conquering the Ambiguity Ambush focuses on identifying and eliminating common sources of ambiguity lurking in legal documents. Experienced corporate and transactional lawyers will undoubtedly recognize some of the common language untangled in the program, which features dozens of examples drawn from actual practice. The program presents 20 concise, clear, practical techniques that can be applied immediately to improve clarity and overall quality of all documents. This seminar is recommended for all transactional lawyers who desire to provide the finest work product possible based on current trends in best drafting practices. Attendees will learn how to reduce ambiguity by:

• recognizing the three basic types of ambiguity in legal drafting;
• using words consistently;
• organizing complex sentences logically and in parallel structure;
• identifying and eliminating unnecessary verbiage;
• untangling convoluted sentence structures; and
• much more!