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Contracts

Jan. 21, 2015

Tell your clients: ignore boilerplate — at your peril

Amidst the press of contract formation, boilerplate provisions often receive a glancing attention from clients. Sometimes they are ignored entirely. But this is a mistake. By Mack W. Borgen


By Mack W. Borgen


Amidst the press of contract formation, boilerplate provisions often receive a glancing attention from clients. Sometimes they are ignored entirely.


Even experienced attorneys deem them to be a matter of tedium and the subject of rote drafting. Often, the provisions are cloned from prior contracts without transaction-specific focus, and the client is not fully apprised of the importance of strict conformity and that some provisions ma...

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