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Vagueness and Ambiguity in Contracts – Webinar
May 27, 2020 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
$29.00Important Change
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Date: May 27, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Price: $95 + GST $29 + GST
Presenter: Douglas H. Peterson, Douglas H. Peterson Professional Corporation
As your first year contracts professor surely told you, every solicitor’s nightmare is one in which their drafting earns them a permanent roasting from the bench. To prevent this unenviable result, many lawyers – young lawyers in particular– tend to rely on the safety of precedents, believing that un-litigated products from the past will surely pass further judicial scrutiny. Yet by their very nature, a precedent will be tuned and tweaked for specific situations by each lawyer using it, who will often leave vagueness and ambiguity in their wake for the next lawyer to wade through.
How do we reconcile the ease and relative safety of precedent usage with recent pushes from the bench, legal educators, and an increasing number of clients, towards clear and easy-to-understand language in contracts? This webinar points out common examples of the most prevalent pitfalls of using precedents – vagueness and ambiguity – and provides helpful techniques for spotting and correcting archaic and convoluted language, built into precedents over time, that confuses judges, lawyers, and clients alike.
Please note: Registrations will close two hours before the webinar begins.
| Group Discount | Firm Broadcast | |
|---|---|---|
| Applicable Products | Livestreams, webinars, and most in-person programs | Livestreams, and webinars |
| Program Access | Individual access | Facilitator access only |
| Materials | Individual access with unlimited views of materials | Facilitator access only, for a limited time. Materials must be downloaded and distributed to the group by the facilitator |
| On-Demand Recording | Individual access with unlimited views of the on-demand recording | No access to the recording |
| Combined Discounts | Can be combined with role-based discounts for new lawyers and students | Cannot be combined with any other discounts |
