Drafting reminder

Drafting
Drafting

Before you send out an amended draft agreement to your supervising partners, clients or counterparties’ counsels, do this:

1. Make sure you have made consequential amendments.

It’s understandable if you miss out a few consequential amendments once in a while but it gets tiring if it happens in every draft.

I sigh every time someone sends me a draft that requires me to make consequential amendments.

If you have deleted a clause or a defined term in a draft agreement, check whether you need to make consequential amendments elsewhere in the draft agreement.

“Ctrl-F” is a useful function on your keyboard. Make good use of it.

2. Run a spell check on the draft.

It’s there. Use it.

3. Check cross-referencing.

Clause 10 refers to the parties’ obligations in Clause 25.1(d). You scroll down and there is no Clause 25.1(d). How?

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This post was first posted on Linkedin on 14 July 2022.

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