The Elements of Contract Drafting - 6th Edition

The Elements of Contract Drafting 6th Edition Kuney

ISBN: 9798892095211

This book is a practical and comprehensive guide to contract drafting, demonstrating how thoughtful and precise language influences legal rights, business relationships, and transactional outcomes across a wide range of practice areas, including corporate law, employment law, real estate, intellectual property, finance, and regulatory compliance. It explains the structure and purpose of contracts and transactional documents, helping readers understand how individual provisions operate, allocate risk, clarify obligations, and protect client interests.

A significant addition to this edition is its examination of artificial intelligence and its growing role in transactional practice. The book provides a forward-looking discussion of the responsible use of AI in contract drafting, addressing critical ethical and professional considerations such as competence, confidentiality, supervision, accuracy, and the exercise of independent legal judgment. Practical guidance is offered on integrating AI-powered tools into drafting workflows while maintaining compliance with professional responsibilities and preserving client trust.

Recognizing that successful contracts are negotiated as well as drafted, the new edition places greater emphasis on the relationship between drafting and negotiation strategy. It explores how contractual language can affect bargaining leverage, shape counterpart behavior, and influence the allocation of risk and value. Readers learn how careful preparation, strategic concessions, and thoughtful drafting choices can improve both deal outcomes and the long-term enforceability of agreements.

The edition also features expanded coverage of indemnification provisions, one of the most significant and frequently negotiated aspects of modern contracts. Through a practical and systematic framework, the book examines the drafting of indemnity clauses addressing third-party claims, direct losses, defense and control obligations, liability limitations, insurance coordination, and related risk-allocation issues. Moving beyond standard boilerplate language, it equips readers to craft indemnification provisions that accurately reflect the parties’ intentions, business objectives, and real-world exposure to risk.

Combining practical drafting techniques, negotiation insights, and contemporary developments in legal technology, this book provides students, lawyers, and transactional professionals with the tools necessary to draft clearer, more effective, and more strategically sound agreements.

The Elements of Contract Drafting 6th Edition Kuney
ISBN: 9798892095211, 979-8892095211, 979-8-892-09521-1, 979-8-89209-521-1

George W. Kuney

Brian K. Krumm

Philip G. Swan II