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Legal Drafting & Agreements

Drafting and review of commercial and personal agreements: sale, service, employment, partnership, loan, non-disclosure and vendor contracts. A downloaded template is drafted for a different transaction in a different state, and the clauses it omits are usually the ones that matter when the relationship breaks down.

What you get

  • Sale, service, employment, partnership, loan, NDA and vendor agreements
  • Drafted against your facts, then reviewed with you clause by clause
  • Payment terms, termination, indemnity and liability limits set deliberately rather than inherited
  • Dispute resolution, governing law and jurisdiction clauses stated explicitly
  • Stamp duty requirement identified for the state where the document will be executed
  • Review of an agreement drafted by the other side, with the risky clauses flagged

How it works

  1. 1Understand the transactionWhat is being exchanged, by whom, on what terms and what each side is afraid of. The last of those is what shapes the clauses that get argued over later.
  2. 2DraftA first draft is prepared with the commercial terms filled in and the protective clauses set to your position rather than to a neutral default.
  3. 3Review and reviseThe draft is walked through with you, including the clauses you would not have thought to ask about, and revised until the terms are the ones you intend.
  4. 4ExecuteStamping requirements for the relevant state are confirmed, and the agreement is executed and, where required, registered or notarised.

FAQ

About legal drafting & agreements

Is an agreement on plain paper enforceable?

A contract can be valid without stamp paper, but an insufficiently stamped document is generally not admissible in evidence until the deficiency and the applicable penalty are paid. In practice that means you discover the problem at the worst possible moment, in front of a court, so stamping is dealt with at execution rather than left.

Can I just amend a template I found online?

You can, and it is usually fine until it is not. Templates tend to be drafted for another jurisdiction, carry stamp duty and registration assumptions that do not hold in your state, and quietly omit the clause covering the specific way your deal can fail. The review here costs far less than the omission does.