May 9/Web: Best Practices for Clear Contract Drafting #MCLE webcast!

This program, originally publicized as an in-person CLE, is now going to be available as a webcast:
Professor Seymour will discuss:

• Use of Drafting Tools – Covenants, Rights, Representations, Warranties and Indemnities
• Clarity in Drafting – Avoiding Legalese, Recognizing and Correcting Linguistic Ambiguity, Drafting Dates and Numbers, the Pitfalls of Passive Voice
• Simplicity in Drafting – Eliminating Wordiness, Organization, Use of Lists

Title:
Best Practices for Clear Contract Drafting
When/Where:
8:00-8:30 a.m. – Registration and continental breakfast preceding each program.
8:30-9:30 a.m. – Lecture

Available As Webcast!
Also Available at
The City Club of Cleveland850 Euclid Ave., 2nd floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
 
CLE Credit:
1 of CLE credit available.
Speaker:

Carolyn Seymour

Carolyn Seymour, Associate Professor, Legal Analysis and Writing, Case Western Reserve University School of Law: Carolyn Seymour practiced law for almost 20 years before coming to the law school to teach legal writing in 2004. Professor Seymour began her legal career at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., where she was an associate for five years before joining Duvin, Cahn & Hutton in 1990. As an employment litigator, she specialized in sexual harassment and disability discrimination issues. In 1995, she became in-house counsel for BFGoodrich-Aerospace, another position she held for five years before returning to Duvin as a partner in 2000.

Sponsor:
Case Downtown Lecture Series
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
More:
http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=296