Stacy Leeds, dean of Arizona State University College of Law, explains why the school moved to allow law school candidates to use generative AI tools in their admissons applications.
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I write this blog principally for litigators, but sometimes it is worth remembering that transactional attorneys are also advocates who, depending on the circumstances, may also have persuasive goals. The point of seeking to influence, particularly when the transaction may become the subject of future legal battles, is a place of overlap between transactional attorneys. For litigators, the advice to “Tell a story” is commonplace, while for lawyers drafting transactional documents, it may be a bit less so.
A forthcoming article in the
Nevada Law Journal aims to change that. In “The Power of a Good Story: How Narrative Techniques Can Make Transactional Documents More Persuasive,” law professors Susan Chesler and Karen Sneddon, from Arizona State University and Mercer Law Schools, respectively, say transactional attorneys should tell a story. Their thesis is that contracts and other transactional documents are not