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Online Contract Formation Turns on Design and Context: Lessons from Recent Circuit Court Decisions

Death Metal and the Statute of Frauds (plus Alleged Cancellation Because of Sexual Assault Claims)

Contract law awaits us all.

From Click to Contract: When Courts Enforce Online Terms

Specific Performance Is an Equitable Remedy, Not a Matter of Right: Supreme Court

Supreme Court clarifies why specific performance is not automatic and explains the crucial role of readiness, willingness, and equity.

Trade Contracts Can Make Informal Settlement Talks a Duty to Defend Trigger

Pitfalls in BESS Contracts with New Counterparties (Part 1)

Lawctopus Law School’s Self-Paced Online Certificate Course on ‘Contract Lifecycle Management’ (CLM) [August 1 – 31]: Re...

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When an Oral Business Deal Goes Bad: Lessons From a New Jersey Dispute Over a Book, $42,000 in Presales, and Two Incompl...

What Every Multinational Should Know About … Conducting a Buy-Side Contracts Review for Compliance Risk

For multinational companies, buy-side contracts are one of the most consequential — and least systematically reviewed — sources of compliance risk. Vendor, supplier, manufacturing,...

Minor contract breaches don’t bar recovery

The Court of Appeals of Virginia ruled that minor breaches in a landscaping contract do not bar recovery, allowing both parties to claim damages. The post Minor contract breaches d...

You Can’t Figure Out the Lots Later: A Drafting Lesson for Homebuilders and Developers

The Texas Business Court recently handed developers and builders a useful reminder—if you’re going to sign a purchase and sale agreement today for lots that won’t exist until somet...

Defending a Breach of Contract Lawsuit When Performance Is Disputed

For manufacturers and distributors, most breach of contract lawsuits do not turn on whether a contract existed. They turn on whether you actually performed, whether the other side...

What Every Multinational Should Know About … Conducting a Sell-Side Contracts Review for Compliance Risk

For multinational companies, sell-side contracts — customer, distributor, reseller, licensing, and service agreements — often define the company’s front-line regulatory exposure. T...

Chancery Rejects Prevention Doctrine Argument in Breach of Contract Analysis

Colorado Updates Requirements for Consumer- and Business-Facing Automatically Renewing Contracts

Contract Interpretation-Deed Reformation

Finding The Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District III, affirmed the circuit court’s judgment and order in favor of Tribella Properties in a dispute involving several real-estate dev...

Supreme Court on Contract Labour: Sham Contract Disputes Can Be Referred Without a Prior Demand

Introduction The Supreme Court has reiterated that procedural technicalities cannot be permitted to frustrate the statutory objective of industrial dispute resolution under the Ind...

Your Customer Just Got Bought. Your Contract Might Not Survive the Deal.

Book Review: Frustration of Contract

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of...

New York-Licensed Construction Contract Breach Attorney Required

New York-licensed construction law attorney needed for contract breach case against a contractor who failed to perform work despite receiving a deposit of $58,800. Timberkraft Log...

Contract – Sprint sued for terminating contract in bad faith

Where a party plausibly alleged another party acted in bad faith when it terminated a contract, its motion to amend its complaint to assert a non-duplicative breach of contract cla...

One-Sided Arbitration Clauses Are Still Contracts—and Contracts Require Fairness

Businesses increasingly rely on mediation and arbitration provisions to resolve disputes efficiently and privately. As a commercial litigator, I routinely advise clients on draftin...

ASBCA- How Government Contractors Organize a Delay Claim Can Make or Break Its Sum Certain

Government contractors pursuing complex delay claims got a helpful reminder from the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) this month in the case of Bahadir Construction...

ASBCA Converts Default Termination to Termination for Convenience: What Government Contractors Need to Know About Jaxon...