As fans of the beautiful game know well, Lionel Messi is staying with FC Barcelona to avoid a legal battle with his long-time club over a disputed release clause in his contract. And Barça’s legal counsel, Cuatrecasas, was kicked to the curb for allegedly advising Messi on his options for exiting the club, a conflict of interest. If a soccer team worth more than $4B and the world’s highest-paid and arguably most talented soccer player can run into a snag with a murky clause in a contract, discussed literally millions of times on podcasts, websites, and news stories over the past few weeks, surely corporate attorneys, legal researchers, and other legal professionals are going to be paying even closer attention to contractual terms now.

Fortunately, we in the legal sector typically have access to a variety of robust resources for guidance, sample agreements and clauses, checklists, and contract drafting tools. If your organization has access to Lexis Practical Guidance (formerly Lexis Practice Advisor), Westlaw Practical Law, Bloomberg’s Transactional Intelligence Center, or similar products from other providers, you can draw from massive collections of forms and clauses and edit them on- or offline, picking and choosing what is right for you. Expert practitioners provide clauses and explanations to help attorneys craft the most on-point language.

If you are most familiar with print sources like Fletcher or Warren’s, rest assured; they, or their equivalents, are probably available digitally in the services contracted for by your organization. Consider asking your law librarian or vendor representative for a best practices session on resources available to you. Even very experienced researchers and legal professionals may not know products’ intricacies and developments.

As the FC Barcelona/Messi situation illustrates, specificity matters when it comes to definitions and contractual terms. Extra care in drafting, guided by practical insights and expert guidance, will make a difference.