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The Elements of Contract Drafting

5th Edition
George W. Kuney
ISBN: 9781684674565
Subject: Legal Drafting
Format: Print - Softbound
Page Count: 377
Copyright: 2020 | Status: In Stock
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This book is a practical, brief, to-the-point text covering the fundamental working parts of a contract and how one should be prepared. It provides an overview of the issues and processes involved in drafting contracts and transactional documents. It enables students to analyze the basic structure of contracts and other deal documents and develop the macro and micro techniques used to efficiently create those documents with precision and clarity. It provides the principles necessary for an understanding of the common structures of transactional documents and their provisions that can then be applied to specific transactions. The chapters include exercises and full agreements are found in the appendices. A final chapter for this edition covers transactional legal opinion practice. Beyond structural drafting, this book also covers some of the substantive laws that may affect contracts.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Coursebook
Publication Date: 05/14/2020
Related Subject(s): Contracts, Professional Identity Formation

George W. Kuney, University of Tennessee College of Law

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1. Addition of Chapter 14, approximately 44 pages, on opinions of counsel to support transactions discussing form, format, standards, and applicable ABA guidance. One extensive case dealing with attorney liability for problematic opinion letter.

2. The main text has been updated to include discussion of tabular formats, additional practice pointers, key terms summaries at chapter endings, and conforming changes to match those in the newest editions of Kuney and Lloyd, Contracts: Transactions and Litigation, Kuney and Looper, Legal Drafting in a Nutshell, and Kuney and Looper, Legal Drafting: Process, Techniques, and Exercises, all out 2020-2021.

3. General refreshing of text and citations.

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