Understanding contracts generally through a legal perspective has systemic influences on how companies are organized; how personnel communicate internally and externally; how and by whom strategic planning proceeds; what is identified as a contract problem, and the conceived structure of that...

This Article analyses the intersection of three aspects of law, lawyering, and Information Age technology and culture, describing how they disrupt and inhibit one another even as they supply possible opportunities for each to grow and innovate. The Article urges that Information Age challenges...

Many legal problems are caused by misunderstandings. People do not read complex documents. Even if they do, they may not find what they look for or understand what they find. This chapter shows how proactive legal care can help, not only to deal with challenges of complex legal information, but...

Commercial contract users read their contract documents infrequently, and understand them inadequately. The disincentives may be several: perhaps because contract language is too technical and too long; or that contracts tend to be organized around ensuring or avoiding legal liability rather...

Contract inflexibility seems to stem from two motivations: the urge to control the future, and a quest to improve economic efficiency. In thinking about whether and how contract inflexibility might be reduced, those human motivations must be taken into account. Reforms aimed at greater...