Contract Drafting for Contract Managers and Other Non-Lawyers

This course is aimed at contract managers and other non-lawyers and will enable them to be more effective at understanding and drafting contracts, writing legal correspondence and improve their knowledge of relevant legal, contractual and commercial vocabulary.

The course covers:

• Writing for the reader

• Avoiding ambiguity, repetition and superfluous language

• Structuring clauses, paragraphs and sentences

• Contractual and procurement terminology

• Selecting the appropriate tone (formal or informal)

• The differences between British and American English

• Punctuation and common grammar mistakes

• Proofreading

• Varied interactive drafting exercises including contract amendments and trainer feedback