Drawing upon their collective experiences in the classroom and the boardroom as well as in law-firm and in-house practice, authors David Zarfes and Michael L. Bloom, in Contracts and Commercial Transactions, explore actual agreements between sophisticated parties. Along the way, they teach the reader to read and understand contracts, with an emphasis on how a decision maker--be it a judge, arbitrator, corporate executive, or senior partner;might later understand those same contracts.
Contracts and Commercial Transactions features:
- Actual agreements, formatted as whole documents, that support the exercise of contract reading and analysis
- Insight and advice from expert practitioners that emphasize the realities of legal practice from the perspective of "real-world" lawyers
- Explanations and analysis from esteemed academics that explain the nuances of legal matters pertaining to contractual documents
- Focus points that preface each contract highlight key aspects of the document
- Methodical and repeated exposure to provisions that teach the reader to recognize and understand contractual concepts
- A consistent emphasis on the "building block" provisions typically found in contracts and their intersection with contract law
- Drafting tips integrated throughout the book