Basic Contract Drafting Assignments

Basic Contract Drafting Assignments: A Narrative Approach is a unique supplement of contract drafting exercises designed to be used with any contracts or drafting course book. Instructors who want to incorporate drafting exercises into the classroom experience will find an invaluable asset in his supplement, which provides students with the tools necessary to develop skills that can be applied to various types of advanced transactional work. Divided into four interest-catching sequences, this concise paperback takes a narrative approach, and gives students the opportunity to learn by doing: The first assignment in each sequence introduces the clients, their businesses, and their needs. In the second and third assignments those clients evolve and grow, and their business needs change. Each sequence features assignments of varying lengths and types, including gathering information, interviewing the client, outlining the issues that need to be considered from both sides of the table, and drafting the necessary memos, letters, and final contract. The assignments focus on methodologies in four areas: How to conceptualize in writing the parties rights, duties, risks, and protections. How to organize a contract on both the macro and the micro levels. How to draft for clarity and enforceability. How to express boilerplate terms. Additional resources for students and instructors include: Entertaining and informative appendices, among them What Deal Lawyers Say to Each Other: A Dictionary of Contract Negotiation and Drafting Slang Ten Tips for Interviewing a Client about a Transaction Decoding the Comments on Student Contracts: Some Samples with Illustrations Basic Contract Drafting Assignments will augment and enhance any book you are currently using by providing a wealth exercises that will help students learn real-world drafting techniques and skills.

Basic Contract Drafting Assignments: A Narrative Approach is a unique supplement of contract drafting exercises designed to be used with any contracts or drafting course book. Instructors who want to incorporate drafting exercises into the classroom experience will find an invaluable asset in his supplement, which provides students with the tools necessary to develop skills that can be applied to various types of advanced transactional work. Divided into four interest-catching sequences, this concise paperback takes a narrative approach, and gives students the opportunity to learn by doing: The first assignment in each sequence introduces the clients, their businesses, and their needs. In the second and third assignments those clients evolve and grow, and their business needs change. Each sequence features assignments of varying lengths and types, including gathering information, interviewing the client, outlining the issues that need to be considered from both sides of the table, and drafting the necessary memos, letters, and final contract. The assignments focus on methodologies in four areas: How to conceptualize in writing the parties' rights, duties, risks, and protections. How to organize a contract on both the macro and the micro levels. How to draft for clarity and enforceability. How to express boilerplate terms. Additional resources for students and instructors include: Entertaining and informative appendices, among them What Deal Lawyers Say to Each Other: A Dictionary of Contract Negotiation and Drafting Slang Ten Tips for Interviewing a Client about a Transaction Decoding the Comments on Student Contracts: Some Samples with Illustrations A web-based Teacher's Manual that provides teaching tips, answers to the student exercises, and notes for the characters that the teacher plays. Basic Contract Drafting Assignments will augment and enhance any book you are currently using by providing a wealth exercises that will help students learn real-world drafting techniques and skills.

This comprehensive guide covers every stage of organising and teaching a course in contract drafting. With extensive sample course materials, it offers useful tips for building nuance, creative thinking, and experiential learning into contract drafting curricula.

An eagerly anticipated second edition of this established and highly regarded text teaches the key practice skill of contract drafting, with emphasis on how to incorporate the business deal into the contract and add value to the client's deal. Features: More exercises throughout the book, incorporating More precedents for use in exercises Exercises designed to teach students how to read and analyze a contract progressively more difficult and sophisticated New, multi-draft exercises involving a variety of business contracts New and refreshed examples, including Examples of well-drafted boilerplate provisions More detailed examples of proper way to use shall Multiple well-drafted contracts with annotations Revised Aircraft Purchase Agreement exercise to focus on key issues, along with precedents on how to draft the action sections and the endgame sections. Expanded explanations of endgame provisions, along with examples and new exercises

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Rules of Contract Law, 2015-2016 Statutory Supplement

This convenient paperback from a highly respected author team supplements the authors’ own casebook as well as any other casebook for Contracts. It reproduces most sections from the Restatement (Second) of Contracts black-letter text with selected comments, examples, and illustrations; most sections of the Uniform Commercial Code Articles 1 and 2, with more select sections of Articles 2A, 3 and 9; most articles from the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); and many articles from the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. This supplement also reproduces excerpts from other relevant source materials and provides accompanying commentary to enhance the study of contract law. Rules of Contract Law (2019 Edition) includes: • Restatement (Second) of Contracts • Restatements of the Law of Agency (Third), Employment Law, and Restitution and Unjust Enrichment (Third) • Principles of the Law of Software Contracts • Uniform Commercial Code Articles 1 and 2 and excerpts from Articles 2A, 3, and 9 • U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods • UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (2016) • Materials on Electronic Contracting (UCITA, UETA, and E-Sign Act) • Comment on Commercial, Employment, and Consumer Arbitration • Contract Drafting: A Sample Problem Highlights of the 2019 Edition: Expansive coverage of Restatement (Second) of Contracts, but more concise than prior edition Select provisions from other Restatements, including Restitution and Unjust Enrichment (Third), Agency (Third), and Employment, as well as Principles of Law of Software Contracts Expansive coverage of UCC Articles 1 and 2 Expansive coverage of the CISG Commentary on arbitration and contract drafting problems

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Like previous editions of this landmark title, the Third Edition of Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do, emphasizes the importance of accurately memorializing the business deal while also advancing your client's interests. New co-author Monica Llorente builds on the foundation and insights of Tina Stark's landmark text with detailed introductions to the six building blocks for drafting contracts that pave the way for understanding any type of business contract. Reader-friendly text illustrated by examples and sample provisions demonstrates the mechanics, strategy, and precision of real-world contract drafting. In line with Tina Stark's legacy of building a bridge between law school and practice, co-author Monica Llorente solicited significant input from law professors, practitioners, and law students in the course of her work on the Third Edition. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION Covid's effect on contract drafting, including force majeure provisions Expanded and updated coverage of use of qualifiers, standards, and risk allocation Expanded and updated coverage of endgame mechanisms, such as limitations on liability, specific indemnity tools, and provisions All-new coverage of Professional Responsibility Part summary chapters that provide a capsule overview of all topics in those chapters Online materials and updates on using AI and technology in drafting, available on CC Resources page and Aspen website Professors and students will benefit from Using drafting concepts as the building-blocks for understanding and writing business contracts Clear descriptions of the purpose and format of every part of a contract Guidance for developing drafting skills Hands-on exercises for practice and self-assessment Best-practice recommendations for drafting clearly and unambiguously Integrated coverage of strategy, risk management, ethical considerations Online materials and updates for using AI and Technology in contract drafting