A blog about creating better contracts.
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Learn the notes (so you can forget all about them)
I was in my teens when I first watched the film Shine, which tells the story of David Helfgott, the virtuoso pianist and child prodigy. A chunk of the film follows Helfgott as he works to master Rachmaninov’s 3rd piano concerto for a competition while studying at the Royal College of Music in London. (Here’s…
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Short — Relevant — Fair
If you’re reading this, you’re probably familiar with lots of the accusations thrown at contracts: And so on. Inevitably then, you’ll regularly hear that contracts should be made shorter, more relevant and more balanced. Cheers to all that (it’s what I do for a living after all). In practice, these aspirations can sometimes pull in…
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Template Drafting vs Transactional Drafting (Part 2)
This is the second of two posts that compare template drafting with transactional drafting. If you missed Part 1, by template drafting, I mean the process of creating the template contracts and standard terms that are used as the starting point for most transactions. Transactional drafting, on the other hand, describes the process of adapting…