As a drafter of a contract you want to craft a document that accomplishes the objectives of the parties while protecting the interests of your client. To accomplish this, you must be able to predict what may happen between the parties, to provide for each contingency, and to protect the client with a remedy. Often you must do this quickly.
While each contract involves different concerns, depending on the subject and the context, all contracts involve common requirements and considerations. It is some of these requirements that we are concerned with in this section.
As a contract drafter you do not need to reinvent the wheel with each contract you draft. Instead, by standing on the shoulder of great lawyers and drafters, you can ensure that your contracts are complete and effective.
For all drafters, a checklist can ensure that the contract will contain the necessary substantive provisions and that decisions about those provisions will have been made by design, not by accident.
