Is Contract Creation an Important Part of Your Contract Automation? Then...
The contract process divides neatly into two parts: stuff that happens before a contract is signed, and stuff that happens after.I never get involved with what happens after signing, unless it has to...
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Is There a Downside to Automated Contract Creation?
If you think of yourself as a committed member of the digerati, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, by Nicholas Carr, might give you pause.Carr shows that as much as automation enriches our lives, it...
View ArticleYou Want to Measure Quality in Contracts? Without a Style Guide, You’re Nowhere
I noted with interest this post by Ken Grady on Seyfarth Shaw’s Seytlines blog, particularly as last year I did a Q&A with Ken on this blog (here).Ken’s post is about quality in contracting. He...
View ArticleThe UT System Administration Contract Office Goes All-In
[Updated June 30, 2015: Here’s an update from Blake:In our job search, we stated that knowledge of MSCD was a “preferred qualification.” Out of dozens of qualified applicants, we narrowed the pool to...
View ArticleMy New Article on “Represents and Warrants”
My article Eliminating the Phrase Represents and Warrants from Contracts is now available. It’s in the latest issue of Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. Go here for a PDF.This...
View ArticleRelying on Templates
Last year, while I was at a prominent law firm to do a seminar, someone from the law firm emphasized to me that they don’t use standard templates. Instead, they want their junior lawyers to figure out...
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Meet My New Business, Adams Contracts Consulting LLC
I’ve created a new business, Adams Contracts Consulting LLC. We help companies make their template contracts clearer, more concise, and more effective. We also help companies automate their templates,...
View ArticleI Don’t “Tweak” Templates
A few months ago someone contacted me about redrafting their organization’s template confidentiality agreement. It was a simple enough matter, and after some back and forth, I was ready to start.Then I...
View ArticleThe Market Forces Behind My Move from Koncision to Adams Contracts Consulting
Some of you will recall that in December 2010 I launched Koncision Contract Automation and the accompanying website. I shut it down in June 2014, but it was irrelevant long before that.A few days ago I...
View ArticleDo I Eat My Own Dog Food?
It’s not particularly elegant, but the notion of eating your own dog food is a recognized metaphor in the tech world. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it:Above is part of a post on Contract-Automation...
View ArticleOn “This Agreement” and Sweating the Small Stuff
You’re a client. I give you my redraft of one of your templates. We discuss my version. During those discussions, you ask that I restore the capital A to this agreement. Here’s what MSCD 2.110–.110...
View ArticleI’m Looking for Someone to Help Me in My Consulting Business
A little over a year ago I launched my Adams Contracts Consulting business. As I expected, I now spend an increasing amount of time on my consulting work. I need someone who can help me with it. The...
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Can I Learn Anything from Richard Rawlings and “Gas Monkey” That Would Help...
Last Saturday I was at the Lahti X-Treme Car Show in Finland (more about that here). I was having lunch in the VIP area with a contingent from the U.S. embassy when in sauntered Richard Rawlings, the...
View ArticleMy NDA Template Is Back, as Part of a New Custom-Commodity Service
Longtime readers will recall my confidentiality agreement template, automated using Contract Express. It allows users to create a highly customized confidentiality agreement for use in M&A,...
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The First Question to Ask About My Consulting Services
Even if you’re aware of what I do, I suspect you haven’t considered whether to hire me to redo your template contracts. Allow me to make that easier by breaking down for you the factors to bear in...
View ArticleFixing Your Contract Templates Isn’t the Place to Economize
You accept that your templates could be substantially improved, in terms of both what they say and how they say it. (You don’t think that’s the case? I’d be happy to show you.) And you’ve accepted my...
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I Stay On-Message on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is my preferred forum for stuff that you, dear reader, have heard many times on this blog. In that spirit, today I posted on LinkedIn an article entitled What Level of Dysfunction in Your...
View ArticleSeparation Agreement, Anyone?
Because my notion of a library of automated commercial contracts remains a distant prospect, what I have to offer in the way of contracts to copy is exceedingly limited. There is, of course, my...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Your Templates
I’ve become acutely aware that many companies find change hard to swallow. (See this March 2017 post for examples of how companies can choke on change.) Inspired by a project I just did for a global...
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Levels of Contract Template Dysfunction, from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 1
I figured that rather than just speaking generally about dysfunctional contract templates, it might be helpful if I give you a sense of the different kinds of dysfunction I see. So I’ve co-opted the...
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