The Contracts Guy Reviews the Third Edition of MSCD
Brian Rogers, also known as @theContractsGuy, has reviewed the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Go here to read it. I’m delighted that Brian thought it worthwhile to go through...
View ArticleAnother Reaction to the Third Edition of MSCD
In this post on China Law Blog, Dan Harris expresses his opinion about the third edition of MSCD.An enthusiastic thumbs-up from someone like Dan? That gets my attention.The post Another Reaction to the...
View ArticleTwo More Reviews of MSCD3
You can find on ContractsProf Blog two reviews of the third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Go here for a review by Daniel D. Barnhizer, professor at Michigan State University...
View Article“A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting” Is Now Available on iTunes...
[Updated July 16, 2013: Go to this post for an updated and correct account of ebook version of MSCD.]Huzzah! The third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is now available on iTunes.You...
View ArticleThe MSCD Ebook: I Attempt to Get the Story Straight
[Updated July 19, 2013]In this recent post I grandly announced that the ebook version of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting was available on iTunes, but it later transpired that pretty much...
View ArticleMSCD Is Still Not Available in Some Stores on iTunes >:-(
I apologize for these repeated non-thrilling updates, but word is filtering in that although MSCD is available in, for example, the UK iTunes store, it isn’t available in other non-U.S. stores: Russia!...
View ArticleTwo More Reviews of “A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting”
In case they’re of interest, two more reviews of MSCD have appeared:One by employment-law guy Daniel Schwartz, in this post on Connecticut Employment Law Blog.One by Luis Villa, deputy GC of the...
View Article“A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting” Available on Amazon in Print and...
This has been a week of enforced idleness: I’ve been reminded, yet again, that capping off a demanding seminar tour by spending an entire day with the teeming masses in various airport terminals and...
View ArticleTwo Reviews on Amazon Complain About MSCD’s Binding
I was surprised to notice that the first two Amazon reviews of the third edition of MSCD (here) mostly complain about the Wire-O binding. I’m a little perplexed, as I’m firmly of the view that the...
View ArticleWhat to Include in MSCD4
Although it won’t see the light of day for at least another year, my attention is turning to the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Compared with the difference between the...
View ArticleGame On: Looking for Volunteers to Review the Manuscript of the Fourth...
[Updated 9 March 2017: Thank you all, but I now have all the volunteers I can handle.] OK, girls and boys, it’s time to start the process of publishing the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for...
View ArticleTake a Peek at the Introduction to the Fourth Edition of “A Manual of Style...
Here are the first two sentences of the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, as I currently imagine them: This manual offers guidelines for clear and concise contract language. If...
View ArticleShould I Flag Changes to the Fourth Edition of MSCD?
I’m writing the preface to the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. Normally it’s where I’d describe what’s new, but there’s so much new material that listing what’s new would...
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How the Sausage Is Made: Revising “A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting”
Perhaps some authors buff and polish their reference-work manuscript to a state of gleaming perfection, then place it on a velvet pillow and deliver it to the publisher. Well, that’s not quite how it...
View ArticleMSCD4 Now in Production
I just sent my minder at the American Bar Association the manuscript for the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. All I can say is EXPLETIVE DELETED. It took about four months to...
View ArticleMSCD4: Too Much of a Good Thing?
The third edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting is 510 pages long. Today I was surprised to be told that the fourth edition will weigh in at around 700 pages. That represents a lot of new...
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Fourth Edition of MSCD Now Available for Preorder
The print version of the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting will arrive at the ABA warehouse on 10 October, but you can preorder it by going here. That being the case, next week...
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MSCD Fourth Edition: The Binding
We’ve changed the binding for the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. This might seem a trivial matter, but the binding was enough of an issue for me to ask readers about it in...
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MSCD Fourth Edition: Foreword by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster
Here’s another indication that A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting has reached maturity with the fourth edition: for the first time, it has a foreword. And not just any old foreword. It’s by Vice...
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MSCD Fourth Edition: Table of Contents
Go here for the table of contents to the fourth edition of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. If you’re not familiar with the book, it will give you a good idea of what it covers. Before the ABA...
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