Author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting; blogger at Adams on Contract Drafting. At https://xitter.cf/t.co/9jqb5oxGC8, and on Spoutible I'm @AdamsDrafting.
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For corporate lawyers: almost all of them. @AdamsDrafting has made a career of proving this to us. I'm not even kidding. Thinking about what I drafted 20 years ago and the platitudes we'd all share is frankly embarrassing. And that was state of the art, AMLaw100 work.
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At dawn #OTD 16 July 1942, some 4,500 French policemen, acting for the German authorities, arrested over 11,000 foreign Jews living in Paris, imprisoning them in appalling conditions in the Vel’ d’Hiv
Most were later murdered in Auschwitz
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Ken Adams retweeted
When I decided to forsake court advocacy and start my own non-contentious practice, I knew nothing of the philosophy of contract drafting. I read your book. I was completely won over by your reasoning on shall.
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More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Your 'moment of doom' for May 25, 2023 ~ 100-1000x faster than background rate.
"... the main drivers of the current extinction crisis are habitat destruction, overexploitation of species, invasive species, pollution, and anthropogenic climate change."
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This is the largest existential threat to all of us and we’re just not talking about it theguardian.com/environment/…
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7 years ago, #Uber insisted that it would reduce traffic. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic, and now admit they increase congestion.
So much for “making cities better…”
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profoundly horrific massacre of the week - only in USA - that the gun lobby has turned into the Republic of murder
A Texas man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbors, killing an 8-year-old and four others inside the house, after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday. to.pbs.org/3oV7aLe
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Sir #DavidAttenborough
“Things are going to get worse."
"This is the new extinction & we are half way through it. We are in terrible, terrible trouble & the longer we wait to do something about it the worse it is going to get.”
#ClimateEmergency
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Ken Adams retweeted
literally let out a yelp of joy when i found my review copy of @AdamsDrafting’s latest MSCD5 on my doorstep today
Ken Adams retweeted
Rightwing extremists advocating for the dissolution of the country is neither new nor surprising.
The fact that such extremists have risen to the center of conservative politics and continue to be elevated within the Republican Party, however, is indicative of an acute threat.
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What the actual….??
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Ohio right now
That's a giant cloud of polyvinyl chloride and a ton of other bad chemicals
The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em
Ken Adams retweeted
Can we all just note that the system did more to stop people from protesting the police murder of Tyre Nichols last night than it did to prevent a white supremacist mob from storming the US Capitol.
Ken Adams retweeted
NYPD help Proud Boys commit fare evasion & then tell journalists to go back and pay for the fare. Everyone should see this video.
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Like many of you, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with ChatGPT over the last few weeks. It’s magical. It’s distressing. It’s many things all at once.
And I can’t help but feel very conflicted.
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Ken Adams retweeted
Honoured to count Paula Reichenberg, @eliezer_2012 & @AdamsDrafting in our panel discussing the impact of #legaltech on #legal #translation at #W2D2023 #conference 28-29/01/2023 conferences.wordstodeeds.com…
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Nancy Pelosi’s campaign twitter account has 918K followers. Could you take a moment and retweet this and follow her account? Let’s get her to 1 Million: @TeamPelosi