A favorite reference tool for professional drafters for over a decade,
Drafting Effective Contracts combines a clear analysis of how
effective agreements are structured with a practical breakdown of the
essential elements of any contract— giving you the best way to draft contracts.
This completely updated practical reference guide presents a consistent
structural analysis and a comprehensive set of drafting elements that can be
used from contract to contract. You are led step-by-step through the process
by which contracts are created, given clear sample contract provisions, and
offered direction around the obstacles that may be encountered in drafting
agreements for goods and services, promissory notes, guaranties, and secured
transactions.
Drafting Effective Contracts provides a complete handbook for
drafting legal agreements that work. For starters, you get a practical and
comprehensive approach to the overall contract process—from conducting the
initial client meeting to closing the deal. You’ll find a detailed discussion
of the 11 drafting elements that every contract may have:
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Parties
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Recitals
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Subject
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Consideration
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Warranties and Representations
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Risk Allocation
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Conditions
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Performance
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Dates and Term
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Boilerplate
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Signatures
After you get a solid explanation of these essential elements and how they’re
assembled to create effective contracts, you get key strategies for
negotiating the agreement and closing the deal. You get an overview of the
legal concepts that underpin various types of agreements —such as promissory
notes, guaranties, security agreements, and agreements for the sale of goods
and services. Then you’ll see how to apply the drafting elements to create the
finished contract. You also get an array of sample agreements and contracts as
well as statutory material. Only Drafting Effective Contracts
combines the best benefits of a forms book and a treatise to give you the most
complete tool for building effective legal agreements.
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