Marvin Garfinkel’s lifetime of highly successful negotiating, writing, mentoring and deal making shines through in his new book on “Real World Document Drafting.” He has assembled a scholarly, creative and comprehensive collection of thought provoking practical tips, not only on how to avoid disputes in document drafting, but also on how to draft deals to your client’s advantage.
The nuts-and-bolts advice is backed up by hundreds of concrete examples, citations, articles and other materials that have never before been available in any one place. The book can even serve as a valuable resource in researching issues and in resolving those unfortunate disputes that sometimes arise over unclear language in leases, agreements of sale, joint venture agreements and other documents. It will help the reader understand the rules of interpretation that courts apply to the written word.
It has been said, “lawyers spend half their time drafting documents that other lawyers spend half their time trying to understand.” If all lawyers who draft documents will read and absorb Marvin Garfinkel’s book, those “other lawyers” might be able to free up half of their time.
--Harris Ominsky, Blank Rome LLP
Real World Document Drafting is the print version of the CLE course that its author, Marvin Garfinkel, has been teaching for the last seven of his 50 years in the practice of law. It is a treasure trove for the conscientious drafter…I should be close at hand … for every conscientious drafter.
------John F. Hagemann, Professor of Law and Director of the McKusick Law Library, University of South Dakota, Vermillion. Legal Information Alert (Volume 27 #4), Alert Publications, Inc. . Chicago Il. www.alertpub.com
