TY - GEN AU - Espenschied,Lenné Eidson TI - Contract drafting : : powerful prose in transactional practice SN - 9781604427950 AV - KF 807 E77c 2010 U1 - 808.06634 PY - 2010/// CY - New York: PB - American Bar Association, KW - Contratos KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Introduction to legal drafting -- Drafting in transactional practice -- Draft to fit the transaction -- Components of a contract -- Understand the transaction -- Avoid ambiguity -- Focus on word selection -- Use words consistently -- Focus on sentence structure -- Identify common sources of syntactic ambiguity -- Start from a winning position -- Eliminate contextual ambiguity -- Consider these issues -- Edit or review effectively N2 - Presents an overview of the stages in the contract process and offers a comprehensive introduction to the substantive areas addressed in transactional documents. In fourteen lessons, this title helps readers learn how to work from prior documents to produce effective and complete legal documents that protect the client's interests ER -