87: Contract Drafting Tips with Natasha Costello (Interview)

💡EPISODE INFORMATION:
•Do you draft contracts in English?
•Do you know the common mistakes?
•Want some tips to improve?

Get some contract drafting tips in this week's episode where I interview Natasha Costello.
Natasha has over 16 years of experience teaching legal English, she is a qualified solicitor and works as an independent legal English teacher in Paris. She teaches practising lawyers in law firms and law students in universities.

*Correction: I mention that Stephen Horowitz had a student who said his professor or boss would be insulted if he wrote in a specific way. Correction - it was not about short sentences. It was about a very explicit writing style. A writer-responsible style rather than a reader-responsible style that leaves more for the reader to infer.

📄 CONTACT NATASHA

• [email protected]
• linkedin.com/in/natasha-costello


⭐BOOKS MENTIONED

• Mark Adler, Daphne Perry, Clarity for Lawyers: Effective Legal Language: https://amzn.to/2L1XPds

• Bryan Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English: https://amzn.to/2OTIrRz

• Ken Adams, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting: https://amzn.to/2ONGcPS

• Tina Stark, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do: https://amzn.to/37JrRwt

• Cynthia Adams & Peter Cramer, Drafting Contracts in Legal English: https://amzn.to/35ISJLm

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⭐ FURTHER RESOURCES MENTIONED
• Adobe Legal Department Style Guide: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/...
Model Commercial Leases: https://modelcommerciallease.co.uk/
• Contract case about 'Practical Completion': B Building Solutions Limited (GB) v SFS Fire Services Limited (t/a Central Fire Protection) (SFS) [2017]
• Natasha Costello, Teaching non-native English speakers to draft contracts with clarity: http://www.clarity-international.net/...



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