Bøker av Ben L Fernandez

Drafting Contracts - A Practical Guide to Transactional Practice, authored by Ben L. Fernandez is a brief but comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about drafting contracts from scratch and revising complex form agreements. Ben L. Fernandez currently teaches Legal Drafting to students at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Before he went into teaching, he gained extensive experience practicing in this area. He has densely packed this concise text with valuable practice information, insights and tips.This latest book on contract drafting contracts covers more topics and has much more practical information than other texts on this subject. Issues discussed include: Getting up to Speed (familiarizing yourself with the client's business and interviewing the client to flush out all the terms of the deal) Drafting Covenants, Rights, Prohibitions and Descriptions (using "will" or "shall" and "may") Avoiding Potentially Ambiguous Words and Phrases (time periods, numbers, misplaced modifiers, indefinite pronoun references) Organizing a Contract's Beginning Sections (title, exordium, background, definitions, reps and warranties) Organizing Core Covenants and Other Deal Provisions (core covenant, duration, additional provisions) Organizing a Contract's Ending Sections (termination, cancellation, boilerplate, testimonium, signature blocks) Brainstorming (additional provisions to better protect the client, indemnity, insurance, waivers, liability limits) Drafting with Precedent Language and Documents (putting a document together from sample provisions) Tailoring Form Documents (revising a complex form document) Revising the Other Side's Completed Documents (qualifying language, limiting scope, inserting conditions) Negotiating Contract Provisions (preparation, advancing the client's interests without killing the deal) Closing the Deal (closing agendas, verifying signature authority) Dealing with Ethical Issues in Contract Drafting (revisions to signed documents, unenforceable provisions, notarization after the fact) Drafting a Contract Amendment (sample form for amendments) Using Computers to Draft Contracts (document assembly programs, on line execution, artificial intelligence)Drafting Contracts also contains numerous sample contract provisions, as well as helpful charts and checklists, and exercises and sample answers on drafting a contract from scratch and tailoring and revising a complex form agreement.Drafting Contracts - An Introduction to Transactional Practice by Ben L. Fernandez is an essential guide for any law student or novice attorney interested in contract drafting and transactional practice.

Drafting and Revising Contracts - An Introduction to Drafting in Plain English and Revising Complex Form Documents, authored by Ben L. Fernandez is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about drafting contracts from scratch and revising complex form agreements. Ben L. Fernandez currently teaches a course on Legal Drafting to students at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In this book, you will learn the principles taught in this course, and more.This latest book on the topic of drafting and revising contracts provides the reader with substantial insight into the contract drafting process. The reader will learn different techniques for drafting easily readable and understandable contracts, including how to draft covenants, rights, prohibitions and descriptive statements, as well as background sections, definitions, representations and warranties, core covenants, deal terms and "boilerplate" provisions. In addition, Prof. Fernandez teaches how to work with complex form agreements, including completing form documents for a deal, creating new forms for different circumstances and revising documents for the other side. Important topics like negotiating contract provisions, closing a deal, handling ethical issues, drafting contract amendments, and computer assisted contract drafting are covered as well. Author Ben L. Fernandez takes the time throughout his book to not only explain how to draft and revise contracts, but also to carefully explain why the details and terms he includes matter.Drafting and Revising Contracts - An Introduction to Drafting in Plain English and Revising Complex Form Documents by Ben L. Fernandez is an essential guide for any law student just getting started learning about drafting contracts. This book is also a useful and modern refresher course for attorneys who have a transactional practice.