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{{a|plainenglish|}}{{br|A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting}} is such a beautifully ironic title — rather like writing '''{{font|Comic Sans MS}}How to be Cool{{font|georgia}}''' in Comic Sans — that we can’t resist wondering how much more clumsy its title might have been had {{author|Ken Adams}} had the chutzpah — or the basic sense of irony that he seems to lack — to really push the boat out.  
{{a|plainenglish|}}{{br|A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting}} is such a beautifully ironic title — rather like writing '''{{font|Comic Sans MS}}How to be Cool{{font|georgia}}''' in Comic Sans — that we can’t resist wondering how much more clumsy its title might have been had {{author|Ken Adams}} had the chutzpah — or the basic sense of irony that he seems to lack — to really push the boat out.  


Mr. Adams ploughs a lonely furrow fighting the good fight for clear drafting and is surrounded on all sides by Americans, whose intellectual energies seem to be largely expended in making simple ideas complicated, and thus we are grateful to him for it and raise our glass — it is no small matter to dedicate 27 pages to the topic of why one should write “states” rather than “represents and warrants”, and even then not convince — even if, for the selfsame reason, he might not be your natural first choice to be stuck next to at the ABA’s annual contract draftsperson’s gala dinner.
Mr. Adams ploughs a lonely furrow fighting the good fight for clear and elegant drafting and, as he goes, is surrounded on all sides by American attorneys whose intellectual energies are largely expended on making simple ideas complicated, and thus we are grateful to him for it and raise our glass — it is no small matter to dedicate 27 pages to the topic of why one should write “states” rather than “represents and warrants”, and even then not entirely convince<ref>Interested readers can enjoy Mr. Adam’s scholarly monograph [https://www.adamsdrafting.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Adams-Eliminating-the-Phrase-Represents-and-Warrants-from-Contracts.pdf 27-page here]</ref> — even if, for the self-same reason, he might not be your natural first choice to be stuck next to at the ABA’s annual contract draftsperson’s gala dinner.
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