The BUSKLAW Newsletter

Most of you are business professionals and thus are involved with contracts. Depending on the nature of your enterprise, you have various contracts in force, for example:  >sales agreements >purchase agreements >real estate leases >purchase order terms and conditions >software license and maintenance agreements >service agreements >equipment maintenance agreements >consulting agreements >contractor agreements >employment agreements >non-disclosure agreements >non-compete agreements >transportation or logistics agreements >financial institution agreements Perhaps you work with these documents on a regular basis and are familiar with their content. Or you pay a high-priced law firm to do that for you. More commonly, however, you keep these documents in a file cabinet, rarely review them, and only call your expensive big-firm lawyer when there are problems with the transaction. Whatever the case, consider the ...

I've created a monthly newsletter each month since last September - they are archived on the sidebar to the right of this page. I hope that you find the topics relevant to your business. But it has dawned on me that the newsletters don't touch on a subject that you may find interesting: how I practice law.  So, let's remedy that: Unlike many lawyers, I write - and revise - contracts in plain language (or "plain English," which is the same concept - just a bit more ethnocentric). The arguments for drafting contracts are stated in the articles that I wrote for the January and February, 2015 issues of the Michigan Bar Journal . (The links to these articles are also on the sidebar.) There is no good excuse for legal jargon.  I try to be responsive to my clients. If a client calls or emails me and if I'm not immediately available, I try to answer within 24 hours with a substantive response (rather than simply, "I received your email and will look into it...