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Sands Anderson PC

The Contract Isn’t Signed! What Now?

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If you are involved in a dispute concerning a written, but unsigned, commercial or business contract, do not assume that the lack of signatures makes the agreement unenforceable....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Commercial Parties, Transactional Lawyers and Litigators Beware: California Law Has Changed

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California law has changed. The change now makes it easier for California litigants to sue their opponents for fraudulently breaching a contract. Lawyers who negotiate and draft agreements subject to California law should...more

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Sole and Exclusive Remedy Provisions

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A sole and exclusive remedy clause allows parties to a contract to choose specific remedies and relief available under the terms of the agreement. Essentially, exclusive remedy provisions restrict a party's available remedies...more

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Global Water Associates: applying Hadley v Baxendale

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From time to time, those seminal cases we all studied during the early parts of our career pop up in practice. We’re all familiar with them: the snail in the bottle in Donoghue v Stevenson; the spurious sounding flu remedy in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Paying The Penalty? Supreme Court Clarifies Rule Against “Penalty Clauses”

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Last week, the Supreme Court of England and Wales issued a judgment that gives some welcome clarification about when a contractual provision may be deemed an unenforceable “penalty clause”. This should help employers draft...more

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