{"id":1203,"date":"2013-03-01T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2013-03-01T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:38:14","slug":"aaa-offers-online-clause-drafting-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/aaa-offers-online-clause-drafting-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA Offers Online Clause-Drafting Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has long been broadly agreed that the most effective target for education and training in ADR is the lawyers who draft the deals. \u00a0Drafting a dispute resolution clause as an elegant risk allocation is surely the Holy Grail of commercial deals. \u00a0Model clauses are promulgated by many ADR organizations, but inept and hoary arbitration and forum selection provisions continue to be cut-and-pasted, to the dismay of litigators and the chagrin of their clients, who realize too late, once the train has hit them, what a mess their inattention caused.<\/p>\n

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The American Arbitration Association has done us all a great service in launching ClauseBuilder.org<\/a>. \u00a0This tool presents the contract drafter with the same considerations that ADR professionals have urged for years, but in an electronic environment that results in an easy-to-use, easy-to-draft dispute resolution provisions.<\/p>\n

After presenting the standard AAA arbitration clause, the web site takes the user through all the essential choices, soliciting responses that fit the particular deal being papered and modifying the clause as we go. \u00a0These questions include: \u00a0Mediation before arbitration? \u00a0Confidentiality? \u00a0Number of arbitrators? \u00a0Qualifications for neutrals? \u00a0Governing law? \u00a0Limits on discovery? \u00a0Hearings or documents-only? Place of hearing? \u00a0Assessment of fees? \u00a0Appeal? \u00a0Consequences of failure to make payments when due?<\/p>\n

And at the end we have a neat and tidy stepped dispute management clause that the parties have agreed addresses the deal at issue in a manner that allocates the risks of the consequences of breach.<\/p>\n

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When I joined CPR in 1998 the cool thing was to send out to our members floppy disks (remember them?) containing model clauses that could be imported into documents. \u00a0The AAA is to be congratulated for this elegant product, brilliantly set forth, quite simple, and urgently needed. \u00a0Bring this to the attention of your transactional brethren and you will be adding value to all concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new drafting tool from AAA helps transactional attorneys to fit the foum to the fuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,10,38],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-resolution","tag-adr-institutions","tag-conflict-management","tag-lawyers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.businessconflictmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}