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LRC Research Training
Contract DraftingSummer 2020
David IsomFaculty Services Librarian
(619) [email protected]
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Finding sample contracts & guidance
A common scenario:• You are asked to draft a brand new contract or clause• You have never written a contract like the one you have
been asked to draft• You might be tempted:
independent contractor agreement
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Finding sample contracts & guidance
Your client—a local cleaning company—is planning to offer on-demand disinfecting services via a new mobile app. To that end, they’ve identified a software developer they’d like to hire as an independent contractor to write the program. They’ve asked you to draft the terms of this agreement.
You’ve never written such a contract before and don’t know how to get started.
Where to begin?
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You get what you pay for
Issues to think about • Author/creator• Age of materials• Contract style/clauses• Content• Industry• Guidance/analysis
Fee-based sources of forms/sample contracts and guidance• Bloomberg Law (forms & analysis)• Lexis Practice Advisor (forms &
analysis)• Thomson Reuters (Westlaw)—
Practical Law (forms & analysis)• CEB Pro (CA-specific; forms & analysis)• Other fee-based legal websites
(often include forms only)Quality free sources• State websites have free forms (but no analysis)• Print books at the LRC (and other law libraries) have forms and
analysis
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BLOOMBERG LAW
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LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR
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THOMSON REUTERS PRACTICAL LAW
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CEB ONLAW PRO
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https://www.sandiego.edu/law/library/
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BOOKS & TREATISES
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Books
Kenneth A. Adams, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (4th ed. 2017); LRC Reading Room KF807 .A33 2017
Lenné Eidson Espenschied, Contract Drafting: Powerful Prose in Transactional Practice (3d ed. 2019); LRC Reading Room KF807 .E84 2019
George W. Kuney & Donna C. Looper, Legal Drafting in a Nutshell(4th ed. 2016); LRC Reference Reserve Materials KF250 .343 2016; also available electronically via West Study Aids
Tina L. Stark, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do (2d ed. 2014); LRC Reserve Study Aid KF807 .S73 2014
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Treatises and practice guides
David C. Burgess et al., Drafting Business Contracts: Principles, Techniques, & Forms (revised 2019); LRC Reading Room KF801 .D72; also available electronically via CEB OnLaw Pro
Robert A. Feldman & Raymond T. Nimmer, Drafting Effective Contracts: A Practitioner’s Guide (2019, Westlaw)
Vladimir R. Rossman & Morton Moskin eds., Commercial Contracts: Strategies for Drafting & Negotiating (2020, Westlaw)
Peter Siviglia, Commercial Agreements: A Lawyer’s Guide to Drafting and Negotiating (2019, Westlaw)
Tina L. Stark ed., Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate(2019, Lexis)
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Final thoughts
• Don’t start from scratch—there are many resources that can provide starting points
• Google is not a great starting point for contract drafting
• Contact a reference librarian for help