From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Dilbert on contract drafting

August 29, 2008

Yesterday’s Dilbert was the greatest lawyer cartoon I’ve ever seen.

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Cut negotiation delays with a balanced contract form

August 13, 2008

In a prior life, I was vice president and general counsel of a medium-sized, publicly-traded software company. Whenever a customer asked us to agree to a change in our standard contract form, we treated it not as an adversarial challenge, but as a marketing opportunity: Customer A thinks its life will be better if we can [...]

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Cutting the cost of contract drafting

August 10, 2008

I woke up this morning thinking about Michael Cerda’s comment that a startup company’s product “should be a pain pill, not a vitamin.” I realized that the front page of this Web site didn’t do a good job of calling attention to the pain it helps with. In contract drafting, clients experience one very obvious [...]

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Radio button problem solved

August 1, 2008

Late last night I noticed that the radio buttons in my clauses weren’t working. Uh oh; what’d I do? Fortunately I’m using the Firebug add-on debugger with my Firefox browser. That let me track the problem down fairly quickly: A week ago I’d commented out what I thought was dead code, but it wasn’t – [...]

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