Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do
Brief Summary of Contents
Part 1 Translating the Business Deal into Contract Concepts
Chapter 1 A Few Words about Contract Drafting and This Book
Chapter 2 The Building Blocks of Contracts: The Seven Contract Concepts
Chapter 3 Translating the Business Deal into Contract Concepts: Part 1 (Representations and Warranties & Covenants and Rights)
Chapter 4 Translating the Business Deal into Contract Concepts: Part 2 (Conditions, Discretionary Authority, and Declarations)
Part 2 Drafting a Contract’s Parts
Chapter 5 A Contract’s Parts
Chapter 6 Introductory Provisions: Preamble, Recitals, and Words of Agreement
Chapter 7 Definitions and Defined Terms
Chapter 8 Action Sections
Chapter 9 Representations and Warranties
Chapter 10 Covenants and Rights
Chapter 11 Conditions to an Obligation
Chapter 12 Discretionary Authority and Declarations
Chapter 13 Will and Shall
Chapter 14 Drafting the Contract Concepts—A Summary Chart
Chapter 15 Endgame Provisions
Chapter 16 General Provisions
Chapter 17 Signatures
Part 3 Drafting Clearly and Unambiguously
Chapter 18 Legalese
Chapter 19 Clarity Through Format
Chapter 20 Clarity Through Sentence Structure
Chapter 21 Ambiguity
Chapter 22 Numbers and Financial Provisions
Chapter 23 A Potpourri of Other Drafting Considerations
Chapter 24 Deconstructing Complex Provisions
Part 4 Drafting from the Client’s Perspective
Chapter 25 Adding Value to the Deal
Part 5 Putting a Contract Together
Chapter 26 Organizing a Contract and Its Provisions
Chapter 27 The Drafting Process
Chapter 28 How to Review and Comment on a Contract
Chapter 29 Amendments, Consents, and Waivers
Part 6 Drafting Ethically
Chapter 30 Ethical Issues in Drafting
Chapter 31 Additional Exercises