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Article: Drafting: an essential skill.(legal drafting)
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- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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INTRODUCTION
Needless to say, a good commercial lawyer must be skillful and facile in drafting. Frequently, speed in the preparation of legal papers is desirable, even if an early deadline has not been set.
I. ARITHMETIC
While all elements of the draft should be impeccable, above all the arithmetic must be correct and make sense. A manufacturer and an independent sales agent or a salesman-employee after some discussion may agree that if sales in a given year are $2 million or less, the commission will be four percent, and if sales in a given year exceed $2 million, the commission will be five percent. If the sales in that year amount to ...