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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 Manual of Style, Concision and/or Brevity in the Drafting of Contracts and Non-Contractual Obligations Arising Out Of or in Connection Therewith'' might have been fun, for example. I guess there’s always the next edition. | {{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 Manual of Style, Concision and/or Brevity in the Drafting of Contracts and Non-Contractual Obligations Arising Out Of or in Connection Therewith'' might have been fun, for example. I guess there’s always the next edition. | ||
We can tease, but Mr. Adams ploughs a lonely furrow, single-handedly taking the fight for elegant drafting to his countrymen and women. | We can tease, but Mr. Adams ploughs a lonely furrow, single-handedly taking the fight for elegant drafting to his countrymen and women. As he goes, he is by necessity surrounded by attorneys whose favourite language game is complicating simple ideas. | ||
So, we are grateful to Mr. Adams, and full-bloodedly raise our glass in salute to him — it is no small matter to dedicate 27 pages to why one should write “states” rather than “represents and warrants” in a [[contract]] and, even then, not entirely make out your case<ref>Interested readers can enjoy Mr. Adam’s disquisition [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 our natural first choice to be stuck next to at the ABA’s annual contract draftsperson’s gala dinner. | |||
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*[[Representations and warranties]] | *[[Representations and warranties]] | ||
*That dreadful [[FT book about derivatives]] (''not'' written by Mr. Adams, but somehow comparable in tone, price, heft at utility.) | *That dreadful [[FT book about derivatives]] (''not'' written by Mr. Adams, but somehow comparable in tone, price, heft at utility.) | ||
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