legal drafting

Human-readable legalese

September 09, 2011 07:18

One the of the many things I spend a lot of time thinking about is how to present necessarily detailed legal text in a more accessible format, perhaps even in a way that a reader would want to read the text. I came across a story in The Daily yesterday about an attempt to do just that and which...

Add nutmeg to your Terms of Service and whisk briefly

July 25, 2011 09:48

One of my contacts on Google+, York Zucchi, pointed me to his website terms and conditions on his site which I had to share. The terms (well, this is really a liability disclaimer, not a complete set of website terms and conditions) are somewhat simple and not appropriate for all uses but they are...

The power of a good contract

June 03, 2011 15:35

One of my clients referred me to this video and it is terrific. Besides its opening sentiment, the video highlights the importance of a good contract and has an attorney giving his perspective. This is definitely worth watching.

Open sourcing legal documents

May 25, 2011 07:56

I thought I was being relatively radical and progressive when I wrote about how the approaching legal documents business singularity but it seems I was just joining a crowd of progressives. Two recent posts caught my attention recently which illustrate this growing trend. In the first post,...

Automated contracts, free legal documents and the singularity

April 07, 2011 15:51

I wrote about the coming legal practice singularity recently. Legal practice is changing rapidly and the prospect of a sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence to start taking over many legal research and similar tasks is fascinating. Unfortunately for many lawyers the wait may not be quite...