Commercial Law & Contracts – May 23, 2012

by Grant Stiefel on 4/30/2012

This article briefly explains how nearly all corporate clients are overbilled by their lawyers. In fact, according to the California State Bar, if your lawyers bill by the hour, then you’re likely being overbilled by...more

by Lawyers.com on 4/4/2012

Nursing homes are free to use binding arbitration agreements in their contracts with residents, barring victims and their families from suing the homes even in extreme cases of personal injury and wrongful death, the Supreme...more

by Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP on 2/10/2012

In its recent decision in Darwin Select Ins. Co. v. Laminack, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15712 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 8, 2012), the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas had occasion to consider the scope of...more

by Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP on 1/13/2012

The recent decision by New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, in K2 Investment Group, LLC v. American Guarantee & Liability Ins. Co., 2012 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16 (Jan. 3, 2012) illustrates the dangers under New...more

by Charles E. Rounds, Jr. on 11/1/2011

The process of paralegalizing the American legal academy is now complete. It was inevitable. A course in Contracts does not a complete lawyer make. The curricular marginalization of two of the other critical enforceable...more

by Sedgwick LLP on 10/17/2011

In Robinson v. Isaacs, 2011 U.S Dist. LEXIS 118070, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted a petition to compel arbitration filed an investment advisor who was not a signatory to the advisory...more

by Scott Lyford on 8/5/2011

Architects did not owe duty to third party based on contractual duty to owner to report known defects from site observations in connection with injury-causing defect that architect did not observe....more

by Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/22/2011

Trial practice – Civil Procedure – settlement with less than all tortfeasors A frequent issue for trial lawyers as they approach an impending trial against multiple defendants is whether to settle with one and go to...more