A blog about creating better contracts.
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Template Drafting vs Transactional Drafting (Part 1)
These days, my job involves helping clients simplify, improve and digitise their standard contracts. In other words, I help them develop better contract templates to use as the starting point for common transactions. (You can read more about what I do – and why I do it – here.) Naturally then, I spend a lot…
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L2L Contracts: Thinking beyond B2C and B2B
It’s very common to categorise contracts as either B2C (business-to-consumer) or B2B (business-to-business). I’d like to introduce another category: L2L contracts, or lawyer-to-lawyer contracts. I’ll admit straight away that I’m not using ‘L2L’ in quite the same way as ‘B2C’ or ‘B2B’ are typically used – but there are strong parallels (as I’ll come to).…
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Contracts: The Case for Kindness
Let me start by saying this post is targeted partly – if not wholly – at myself. When God was dishing out quotas of snark and cynicism, I received a generous dose. And it’s healthy to keep that in check, so please forgive a little indulgence on the topic of contracts and kindness. When I…