Business Integrity is pleased to announce that it will be sponsoring “Drafting Clearer Contracts,” Ken Adams’s webcasts and seminars on using clearer contract language to save time and money, reduce risk, and become more competitive.
The webcasts will be available through West LegalEdcenter; click here for information on the first webcast, “The Front and Back of the Contract.” The U.S. seminars too are being offered through West LegalEdcenter; the Canadian seminars are being offered through Osgoode Professional Development.
Tim Allen, Business Integrity’s VP Americas, has developed a close working relationship with Adams. “With his rigorous dissection of contract usages and his focus on clarity and consistency in contract language, Ken has essentially created a new discipline and made it his own,” says Allen. “His book A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting has been aptly described as the bible for contract drafters.”
BI recognizes that its efforts to help companies and law firms make their contract process much more efficient are closely allied to Adams’s campaign to establish ground rules for clear and concise contract language. “For a document-assembly solution to be effective, the template language has to be rigorous and streamlined. Nothing is gained by loading muddled and archaic language on a document-assembly system.”
And BI recognizes that an audience that’s committed to clear contract language would likely also be receptive to contract automation. “Ken is developing an international reputation,” says Allen. “We think his seminars and webcasts will be an effective vehicle for getting our name, and our message, in front of a broad audience.”
For his part, Adams says, “Tim and I quickly realized the affinity between document assembly and my approach to contract language. The dysfunction in mainstream contract language is in large measure the result of an inefficient process. ContractExpress DealBuilder, BI’s sophisticated and intuitive document-assembly solution, allows organizations to upgrade their contract language vastly more quickly than they could otherwise.”
In addition to writing about contract language and giving public webcasts and seminars, Ken Adams conducts in-house seminars at companies and law firms, acts as consultant and expert witness, and is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His website and blog are at www.adamsdrafting.com.