Contract Drafting in Complex Sourcing Deals: Reading What You Write
Contract drafting is one of those subjects that just doesn’t get the attention it deserves, write Edward J. Hansen and Christopher C. Archer of Morgan Lewis, in the firm’s Sourcing@MorganLewis blog.
“Contracts for complex sourcing deals are problematically big and often written in a style that doesn’t speak to the people who should be reading them,” they write. “The language may be great if the reader is a judge, but there is a very small probability that a judge will ever see the contract. So, the challenge is to write a contract that can work for a judge but that primarily works for a business user.”
They offer some of their favorite tips for drafting a readable contract.
