Common Draft — A Contracts Deskbook
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In the Contract Drafting course that I teach at the University of Houston Law Center, I stress a number of real-world rules designed to help get workable contracts to signature sooner and keep clients out of trouble. Here are some of those rules (adapted from a published article ):
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In the previous post , my initially-published version (which went out to this blog’s email subscribers but which I subsequently revised) blamed the Bayer and Merck lawyers for the wall-of-words paragraphs reproduced in the Delaware chancery court’s opinion in Merck v. Bayer . The actual version of those contract sections contract, as filed at the SEC’s EDGAR Web site , includes somewhat -shorter paragraphs.
Common Draft — A Contracts Deskbook
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