Contains minor flaws but provides indispensable insight into contract writing and negotiation.
From an experienced transactional attorney, a handbook on business contracts and negotiations.
A former Securities and Exchange Commission and in-house attorney, debut author Swegle provides a clear methodology to understand and analyze business contracts in this exceptionally useful book. First, he examines in detail the language in each section of the typical contract. He next discusses problems that may not appear obvious to the novice contract reader, like how to respond with effective revisions and when to push for new language (revisions are discussed from the viewpoints of both the seller and the buyer). Even an “errant comma” indicating whether a clause is restrictive or nonrestrictive can lead to litigation. “Unfortunately,” the author warns, “Many contract drafting traps are invisible to non-lawyers.” Written in a clear, straightforward style, this book packs in a great deal of detail in a very small space. Other competitors in the business law field may try to engage the reader through authorial hand-holding; Swegle doesn’t. His plainspoken, direct approach places the emphasis where it belongs—writing contracts that protect the interests of both seller and buyer. Swegle also advises on issues that are clarified in one contract section but lurk hidden in another: “The interplay among performance obligations, representations and warranties, disclaimers, limitations, and indemnification is like a complex game of whack-a-mole.” This guide, unlike others in the field, has no sample contract to serve as a demonstration of the author’s understandings and applications. Rather, the author’s decision to discuss step by step each contract section, analyzing as he goes, proves effective in showing how to negotiate key contractual issues through examining and responding to specific language. There is also no conclusion that might either help a reader reflect on what has gone before or provoke further thought; after discussing Declaratory Judgments, the discussion simply stops.
Contains minor flaws but provides indispensable insight into contract writing and negotiation.Pub Date: June 8, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-692-13830-4
Page Count: 148
Publisher: Business Law Seminar Group, LLC
Review Posted Online: Oct. 18, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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