Fixing Your Contracts: What Training in Contract Drafting Can and Can’t Do
Most contracts prose is dysfunctional, but training is available to help contracts professionals draft clearly and concisely. But that gets you only so far; you also have to supplement training with centralized initiatives, write for the Association of Corporate Counsel.
They discuss the style of writing in most contracts (“fundamentally flawed”) and consider what is required to produce clear, concise contracts (training and guidelines).
In their article, some of the advice they discuss includes: lose the archaisms, gain control of verbs, stop using the phrase “best efforts,” and don’t rely on mystery usages.
