This popular and highly practical guide to the most commonly used clauses in commercial contracts presents practitioners with an easy-to-use toolkit for drafting these contracts. It sets out the full text of a wide range of boilerplate clauses and provides detailed analytical commentary on each one, together with advice on its practical application. This new edition incorporates the latest case law into the clause-by-clause discussion.

Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate educates lawyers and business professionals on the underlying rationale and importance of boilerplate language. Each chapter tackles a different contractual provision, over 20 in all, and analyzes why it is important, what the key legal and business issues are, what is negotiable and what is not, and how best to draft the provision to suit a particular transaction. This remarkable book will give you a competitive edge - and a new understanding and appreciation of language you've seen countless times.