Drafting Contracts · How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do · 2nd Edition

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