Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do (Second 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, incorporatingMore precedents for use in exercisesExercises designed to teach students how to read and analyze a contract progressively more difficult and sophisticatedNew, multi-draft exercises involving a variety of business contractsNew and refreshed examples, includingExamples of well-drafted boilerplate provisionsMore detailed examples of proper way to use shallMultiple well-drafted contracts with annotationsRevised 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