Legal writing, legal language, and the "art" of drafting various styles of legal documents such as contracts and documents filed in court.

Illustrations of what specifically is wrong with an illustrative portion of a contract drafted in convention fashion and what the same document looks like after a makeover. Presented at the ABA Annual Meeting, August 10, 2007.

"Summarizes many of the steps you will want to take when you develop or improve any template or model document[.] ... Many of the measures suggested ... amount to a good description of what transactional lawyers are supposed to do all the time ... and in every document ... but that is not the purpose[.]" Originally published in The Practical Lawyer. 8 pages.

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