87: Contract Drafting Tips with Natasha Costello (Interview)

🗒️ About this episode: Do you draft contracts in English? Do you know the common mistakes? Want some tips to improve? Get some contract drafting tips in this week's episode where I interview Natasha Costello.  Natasha has over 16 years of experience teaching legal English, she is a qualified solicitor and works as an independent legal English teacher in Paris. She teaches practising lawyers in law firms and law students in universities. You can connect with Natasha on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ or via ⁠email⁠. *Correction: I mention that Stephen Horowitz had a student who said his professor or boss would be insulted if he wrote in a specific way. Correction - it was not about short sentences. It was about a very explicit writing style. A writer-responsible style rather than a reader-responsible style that leaves more for the reader to infer. What do you find difficult about contract drafting? Send me an email to ⁠[email protected]⁠ or join in the conversation on social media! 🙏This podcast is free to help people around the world. Please help support me and the podcast with a donation⁠. 📙Episode links Website page 📓 Books mentioned Mark Adler, Daphne Perry, ⁠⁠Clarity for Lawyers: Effective Legal Language⁠⁠ Bryan Garner, ⁠⁠Legal Writing in Plain English⁠⁠ Ken Adams, ⁠⁠A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting⁠⁠ Tina Stark, ⁠⁠Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do⁠⁠ Cynthia Adams & Peter Cramer, ⁠⁠Drafting Contracts in Legal English⁠⁠* affiliate links. 📝 Further Resources mentioned ⁠⁠Adobe Legal Department Style Guide⁠⁠ Model Commercial Leases⁠⁠ Practical Completion case: B Building Solutions Limited (GB) v SFS Fire Services Limited (t/a Central Fire Protection) (SFS) [2017]⁠⁠ Natasha Costello, ⁠⁠Teaching non-native English speakers to draft contracts with clarity⁠⁠ 🥇Learn legal English Take a legal English class or course Sign up for my site membership Buy my book: Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers Get italki credit for English classes 📣 Connect with me YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Newsletter