Category Archives: News

Last December, I mothballed the AdamsDrafting blog and fired up The Koncise Drafter. If I were concerned about my stats, that move would have been a disaster—as it’s home to four years of my musings, the AdamsDrafting blog still gets …

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[Updated December 8, 2011: I can confirm that despite the flooding in Thailand, the Bangkok seminar will be going ahead.] I’m delighted that in February 2012, I’ll be presenting in the following cities, under the auspices of Marcus Evans, my …

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National Magazine, the magazine of the Canadian Bar Association, contains Jordan Furlong‘s new article Here Come the Robo-Lawyers. I’ve long enjoyed reading Jordan’s stuff—he’s an astute observer of the legal scene. So I was pleased that Koncision was one of …

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The 2011 annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel is taking place in Denver on October 23–26. I spoke at the previous two annual meetings, and I would have liked to have attended this one. But it’s parents’ weekend …

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We’ve made several changes to Koncision. They’re significant enough that we’re describing them, collectively, as “Koncision 2.0″: Anyone may now use Koncision—not just lawyers. We’ve added a new subscription option: for $500, you may use our confidentiality-agreement template for purposes …

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Greetings from Geneva! I’m here giving a series of seminars, but I received word that in his recent opinion in GRT, Inc. v. Marathon GTF Technology, Ltd., 2011 WL 2682898 (Del. Ch. July 11, 2011) (go here for a PDF copy), …

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Today it was announced that Thomson Reuters has acquired the Australian online document company Cleardocs. (Go here for the ABA Journal’s brief article about the deal.) Using some form of document assembly, Cleardocs allows users to create, among other things, …

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The current issue of the ABA Journal contains this article on practice support lawyers. It cites my views on PSLs and quotes this blog post. If you’ve read my blog post and the blog post by Ian Nelson that it …

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This recent post includes links to early assessments of Koncision. Here are two more: this post by Carolyn Elefant on her My Shingle blog this post by Ron Friedmann on his Strategic Legal Technology blog So the response has been …

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Here are three early reactions to launch of Koncision’s first product: Sean Doherty checked out Koncision and wrote about it in an extensive Law Technology News article entitled “Koncision Answers ‘Where’s the Content?’ for ContractExpress.com” (go here). Sean summed things …

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We’ve reduced from $195 to $50 the cost of subscribing to Koncision’s confidentiality-agreement template for purposes of creating a contract for a single transaction. This subscription option will give you access to the template for three days.  To subscribe, go …

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    Unless you give something a name, it doesn’t really exist. So allow me to introduce to you Koncision Customized, a service offered by Koncision and Business Integrity. It works like this: If you like Koncision’s confidentiality-agreement template but …

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To make it easier for you to see the advantages that Koncision offers, I’ve added the following features: Go here to see how you can test drive the confidentiality-agreement template without charge. Go here to see a sample contract created …

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Today and tomorrow I’ll be in Chicago at the ABA TechShow. You can find me at Business Integrity’s booth (number 317). It will be a novel experience—instead of being a ContractExpress groupie, I’ll be pitching my own wares. If your …

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Koncision has just launched its first product, a confidentiality-agreement template for the U.S. market. I invite you to take a look around Koncision’s website, as much new material has been added for the launch—too much for me to begin to …

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On April 1 the New York Law Journal published my article The New Associate and the Future of Contract Drafting. Normally I’d make available to you a spiffy reprint prepared by the NYLJ, but this time I produced my own …

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I’ve long set March 31 as the target date for launching Koncision’s first product, but I’ll be missing it by a few days—after making some late changes to the confidentiality-agreement template in response to tester comments, I had to call …

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[Updated 8:00 p.m. EDT March 28, 2011 to move the FAQ to the FAQ page.]

The Canadian Lawyer has just published this article by donalee Moulton (yes, small “d”) about contract automation. I was pleased that I was quoted a couple of times and Koncision was mentioned. I was also pleased that the article quotes …

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