Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do

by Tina L. Stark

A perfect fit for the upper-level legal drafting course. Drafting How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do. lt teaches the key practices of contract drafting, with particular emphasis on how to incorporate the business deal into the contract and add value to the clients deal. By providing many solid examples of quality writing, the book helps students to master the basics and to incorporate similar techniques into their own drafting. This text is also appropriate for use in transactional simulation courses, transactional clinics, advanced writing courses, first-year writing courses, first year-contracts courses, and interviewing, negotiating, and counseling courses. Many great features ensure the value and reliability of this text.

Genres: Law, Nonfiction, Legal, Business

461 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2007

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

The majority of law books on the market today add more confusion and fog to understanding basic legal principles. "Hide-the-ball" as opposed to "this is how you solve this type of problem" seems to be the status quo. As my first year property law professor once said, "the moment you solve a legal problem for you client is the moment you stopped getting paid." So, you can understand why most attorneys and "legal experts" play hide-the-ball. Also, one major reason for the large quantity of litigation clogging our civil courtrooms is due to poor legal drafting.

In "Drafting Contracts," author Tina L. Stark provides the best "How To" guide on the market today for drafting and understanding contracts in the United States. Ms. Stark has checklists, examples, and step-by-step instructions of how to draft a preventive legal document.

Highly reccomended.

[Deborah Gearhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written and all using a reference book.