Example of Contract Needed for Course Exam

A Lecturer at the Law School is seeking an example of a contract for an exam. The course is “Drafting Contracts: The Problem of Ambiguity.” The Lecturer is Preston Torbert, a retired partner from Baker & McKenzie. The exam tells the students to assume they represent one of the parties to a contract and asks them to identify the ambiguities in the contract and suggest how they would like to revise it. In the past, Preston has used contracts from the SEC’s EDGAR database, which are public documents. After grading the students’ exam papers, he has made a 20-30 page summary of the best comments the students made and has sent it to the General Counsel of the company the students purported to represent. The reaction has generally been quite positive. See his ABA article.

This year, for his Fall Quarter course he would like to solicit samples of contracts from Law School alums who are General Counsels and who would like to receive an ambiguity analysis of one of their contracts. He is seeking a contract that: (1) the alum has legal authority to disclose; (2) is approximately 20-25 pages in length, and (3) does not contain a lengthy definitions clause. In the past, he has used technology licensing agreements, technology sales agreements, standard sales terms, and cooperation agreements, among others.  Those interested may contact Preston at prestontorbert@outlook.com.