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The Diamond Lane Protocol: A Contracting Playbook Built for the Fast Lane
A Creative Commons contract-drafting guide for law students, lawyers, and clients who need clearer deals and fewer avoidable disputes.
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- The playbook is released under a Creative Commons BY-SA license and includes 1,700-plus extracted links.
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The playbook is arranged as a deeply linked reference work, with chapters on negotiation costs, trust, relational contracting, readability, and AI-assisted reading. It identifies law students as its main audience while also giving lawyers checklist-style uses and clients questions to raise with counsel. The page reports that its rules draw on hundreds of litigated cases, carries a Creative Commons BY-SA license, and is explicitly marked as a work in progress.
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