Don’t Use Definition-First Autonomous Definitions, by Ken Adams, Adams on Contract Drafting Blog

http://www.adamsdrafting.com/dont-use-definition-first-autonomous-definitions/

Ken Adams provides excellent examples of how to use an abbreviations and definitions. Use this for contracts, but keep in mind that it also works in pleadings, motions, discovery, etc.

When you use abbreviations and definitions for a person, a law, an event, or contract, it makes your writing tighter and more concise. It makes sense to abbreviate lengthy names, but take which definition you pick. While striving for a way to make your writing less wordy, don’t let the abbreviation or definition de-humanize your client or overly sanitize your client’s case. -CCE