Abstract
To create practice-ready transactional lawyers who can be valuable and valued advisors to their future clients, teaching technical nuts-and-bolts drafting is critical but not sufficient. Rather, transactional drafting professors need to embed other important lessons into the content for their students, including emphasizing the importance of forming a forward-looking or planning mindset and developing their students’ ethical awareness. To do this, these lessons and mindsets should be a part of the debriefs of all drafting exercises, so that the professor can model these ways of thinking when discussing drafting decisions. These additional lessons are particularly important because students may have drawn different lessons from their doctrinal litigation-focused courses, and professors need to actively reorient student mindsets for the transactional drafting context.
Recommended Citation
Joan E. Neal & Michelle M. Drake,
Good Transactional Drafting Isn’t Just About the Nuts and Bolts,
70
St. Louis U. L.J.
(2026).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol70/iss3/3