TY - BOOK AU - Espenschied,Lenné Eidson TI - Contract drafting: powerful prose in transactional practice T2 - ABA fundamentals SN - 9781604427950 AV - KF807.E84 2010 U1 - 808/.06634 22 PY - 2010/// CY - [Chicago] PB - American Bar Association KW - Contracts KW - United States KW - Language KW - Legal composition N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to legal drafting -- Drafting in transactional practice -- Draft to fit the transaction -- Components of a contract -- Understand the transaction -- Avoid ambiguity -- Focus on word selection -- Use words consistently -- Focus on sentence structure -- Identify common sources of syntactic ambiguity -- Start from a winning position -- Eliminate contextual ambiguity -- Consider these issues -- Edit or review effectively ER -