Welcome to Contract Greenlining

Contract Greenlining is the art and science of avoiding contract redlines.

Who should subscribe to Contract Greenlining?

Contract Greenlining is for lawyers and contract professionals who are tired of the Redline Drag that slows down contract negotiations. You should subscribe if you want to:

• avoid redlines

• accelerate time to signature

• ensure that the positions you truly care about get accepted

• build better business relationships

• think creatively, not adversarially

Who should not subscribe to Contract Greenlining?

Contract Greenlining isn’t for everybody. You shouldn’t subscribe to Contract Greenlining if you:

• want airtight, ironclad, maximally protective clauses

• want to shift all risk to your counterparties

• want to win as many points as possible

Those are important and sometimes worthwhile goals, but that isn’t what Contract Greenlining is about.

Who writes Contract Greenlining?

Contract Greenlining is written by me, Nate Kostelnik. I’m a lawyer and contracts professional with years of experience working with contracts. Over my career, I’ve drafted and negotiated thousands of contracts.

A while back, I became curious about why redlines happen. I started to pay attention to why certain language would get redlined while other language wouldn’t get redlined. I’d wonder what made him redline one thing but not redline something else.

Eventually, I realized that avoiding redlines should be a skill, just like drafting, negotiating, and redlining. And that’s how Contract Greenlining started.