Brace for impact

My costs work is divided into advocacy, advisory and drafting tasks. The latter includes the drafting…

Plain English

September has rolled around again, and it is back to school. Reviewing the last year, I…

Edge of the envelope

From time to time, I am asked to draft bespoke funding agreements, which are tinged with…

Three is company

In this third post on retainers, I set out some thoughts on current issues in drafting…

In the Halls of the Word Smiths

This week I purchased a subscription to Microsoft Copilot Pro: I now have within my Microsoft…

Words of Power

Part of my work is the drafting of contracts. Some of the contracts I draft are…

Series of dreams

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo drag,And there’s no exit in…

Born to run

The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power driveEverybody’s out on the run tonight,…

Retainers and behavioural science

One of the interesting developments of the last decade or so has been the rise of…