Month: June 2024

Poor writing is why you can’t understand contracts

‘There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content’ – Fred Rodell (1936). Despite having nearly 100 years to improve, legal writing is still awful. Researchers in cognitive science from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) have analysed the major

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Contracts and AI

‘The shared goals of lawyers and business are that contracts work legally and operationally‘ (Helena Haapio at World CC Summit 2023). Contracts should: make things happen prevent causes of unnecessary problems drive strategic business objectives and ESG goals. The purpose of contracts We need to make sure that contracts are

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