07 Jul Contract Draft
Follow the general instructions provided to you by Ms. Patel, your supervisor for purposes of this problem. Remember that you are preparing a polished document that will be read by others in your company. Although your draft will not necessarily be the final say, you should be sure it has all the content where it could be the final version once your commentary notes have been stripped out.
Follow These Document Formatting Requirements:
- The font used in the contract must be 12-point in size and suitable for professional documents.
- The margins must be at least one inch on all sides (top, bottom, left, and right) and otherwise look professional in its formatting.
- You must number your pages in the lower right-hand footer of the document.
- The document must be written in single-spaced paragraphs but also have space between each paragraph.
- Your contract must include all eight parts of a typical professionally drafted business contract. See page 243 of Legal Literacy and Communication Skills for a list of these parts. Note that your requirements include factual recitals.
- The contract should make accurate use of the contract concepts listed on page 266 of Legal Literacy and Communication Skills.
- The contract should make appropriate use of indentation, whitespace, section titles, and paragraph numbering to create visual cues for your reader as to the content of the document. The document should appear professional at first glance.
- The contract must be no more than eight pages in length. It can certainly be fewer pages. You must make sure that you cover all substance set out in the parties’ term sheet. You may not contradict any point on which the parties have agreed, though you can (and should) add other provisions that are useful but that are not in the parties’ term sheet.
