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49 Scandinavian Stud. L. 149 (2006)
Business Success and Problem Prevention through Proactive Contracting

handle is hein.intyb/svnsl0049 and id is 149 raw text is: Business Success and Problem Prevention through Proactive Contracting Helena Haapio 1 Introduction ................................................ 150 2 Proactive Contracting: Planning and Using Contracts for Business Success .......................................... 152 2.1 Proactive Contracting: Goals, Means and Levels of Legal Care ........... 152 2.2 The Many Elements and Functions of Contracts ................... 155 2.3 Toward Good-quality Contracts: Minding the Gaps and Other Things that Matter ................... 160 2.4 Contract Planning: the Practical and Theoretical Foundation for Proactive Contracting ............................ ....... 163 3 Making Proactive Contracting Work: Lawyers' and Clients' Shared Responsibility ........................ 167 3.1 Tacit Ignorance and Tacit Assumptions Can 167 Be Hazardous to Clients' Legal Health ....................... 3.2 Contractual Literacy Is Required - of Lawyers and Clients alike ......... 169 3.3 Toward Clients' Self-care and Shared Care: Barriers and Opportunities. 173 3.4 Corporate Contracting Capabilities: A Plea for Cross-professional Research and Education ......... ...... 175 4 Proactivity in Action: Examples of Client (Self-)Care Applications ......... 182 4.1 Improving the Contracting Process - a Case Study ... .............. 183 4.2 Legal Intranet - a Multi-lingual Contracting Toolbox ............... 184 4.3 Contract Libraries and Toolkits Work for Private and Public Organizations ............ ............... 184 4.4 Lawyers and Business People as Strategic Partners .... ............. 187 5 Concluding Remarks ..........:...... 188 References ................................................ 189