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'''Headline''': ''With careful document design and a commitment to brevity, you can restrict the amount of necessary movement. The less page flipping you do, the faster you get through it.'' | '''Headline''': ''With careful document design and a commitment to brevity, you can restrict the amount of necessary movement. The less page flipping you do, the faster you get through it.'' | ||
Motion on a contract is reading, writing, formatting | On a physical production line, unnecessary motion is bending, stretching, reaching, walking. It all takes time and wears out parts. Motion on a contract is ''reading'', ''writing'', formatting and maintaining the templates. Economy of action is just as important. | ||
If a contract has seventy pages and there are negotiable points on every page, there is a lot of movement back and forth. If you strip the economics away from the boilerplate, set out the economics in a single page term sheet, then the amount of ground the negotiators need to cover to finalise the contract is far less. and another shout out for the good people of [[plain English]] and lean, elegant legal prose, but if you can say it in five pages and not fifty, it follows that the possible motion involved is one tenth. | If a contract has seventy pages and there are negotiable points on every page, there is a lot of movement back and forth. If you strip the economics away from the boilerplate, set out the economics in a single page term sheet, then the amount of ground the negotiators need to cover to finalise the contract is far less. and another shout out for the good people of [[plain English]] and lean, elegant legal prose, but if you can say it in five pages and not fifty, it follows that the possible motion involved is one tenth. | ||
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Oh, and learn how to use style sheets and automatic numbering, for heaven’t sake. | Oh, and learn how to use style sheets and automatic numbering, for heaven’t sake. | ||
'''Summary''': Don’t make it harder than it needs to be. Keep the agreements short, and keep the | '''Summary''': Don’t make it harder than it needs to be. Keep the agreements short, and keep the economic terms away from the boilerplate. | ||