This document provides an agenda and resources for a two-day training on reviewing and improving contract terms and conditions. The training will cover topics such as understanding contract language, identifying risks, remedies for breach of contract, risk allocation strategies, and interpreting contracts. It also includes a list of recommended books and articles on contract drafting best practices.

1. Reviewing Contract Key Terms and
Conditions:
Improving Contract Terms, Mitigating Risks, and
Eliminating Ambiguities

2. Contract Lifecycle

3. Understanding Contract English

4. Uncertainty in Contract Language

5. Low Risk vs High Risk Contract Layout

6. Reviewing Core Commercial Terms

7. Identifying Sources of Risk

8. Breach of Contract

9. Day 1 Review and Recap

10. Day 2 Agenda

11. Contract Remedies

12. Risk Allocation and Mitigation

13. Anticipating Changes

14. Other Risk Transfer Strategies

15. The “Reasonable Efforts” Standard

16. Materiality and
“Material Adverse Changes”

17. General Conventions

18. Day 2 Review and Recap

19. Further Reading
• A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, Ken Adams
http://www.adamsdrafting.com/writing/mscd/
• Adams on Contract Drafting Blog, Ken Adams
http://www.adamsdrafting.com/blog/
• Black's Law Dictionary, Bryan A. Garner
https://www.amazon.com/Blacks-Law-Dictionary-Standard-Ninth/dp/0314199497
• Advanced Legal Drafting, Bryan A. Garner, LawProse
https://lawprose.org/cle_seminars/advanced_legal_drafting.php
• HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, Bryan A. Garner, Harvard Business Review Press
https://hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-better-business-writing/an/10946-PBK-ENG
• English Law of Liquidated Damages and Penalty, Lexology
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ea8c9ddbc2da401d886cc807ce38fcf1
• Principles of Contract Interpretation: Interpreting Collective Bargaining Agreements, Jay E. Grenig, Marquette University Law School
http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/facpub
• A Guide to Contract Interpretation, Vincent R. Martorana, Reed Smith
https://www.reedsmith.com/A-Guide-to-Contract-Interpretation-07-01-2014/
• Good Practice in Writing Contracts, CIPS Knowledge Works
https://www.kbresearch.com/cips-files/Writing%20Contracts.pdf
• Ten Pitfalls to Avoid In Contracting, International Association for Contract & Commercial Management
https://www2.iaccm.com/resources/?id=8976
• Drafting or Reviewing a Commercial Contract, Practical Law
http://us.practicallaw.com/resource/2-531-1345
• General Contract Drafting Principles, WeAgree
http://www.weagree.com/free-ebooks
• Legal Writing 201, 30 Suggestions to Improve Readability or How to Write for Judges, not like Judges, Judge Mark P. Painter, Ohio First District Court of Appeals
http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/Legal/legalwriting.pdf

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