Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 487: Listen and Learn -- Consideration (Contract Law)
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Private Equity and Delaware Law – Part Two
3 Key Takeaways | Drafting & Navigating Dispute Resolution Clauses
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Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Beyond Regulations: Hospice Business Contracts and Contract Disputes
Structuring DSO/MSO Healthcare Ventures and Practice Acquisitions
Monthly Minute | Global Supply Chain Issues
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Buy-Sell Agreements: A Conversation With Expert and Author Paul Hood
Risk Prevention Strategies: Ownership of Employee-Developed Inventions and Intellectual Property
Noncompete Agreements - Traps for the Unwary: Part 1
Roadmap to Joint Venture Agreements: Legal and Accounting Considerations
Government Contracting Phase One: Transitioning From Commercial to Government Work
Mergers and Acquisitions - Key Issues in Today's M&A Deals
Monthly Minute | Due Diligence Considerations Related to COVID-19
MAE Clauses: Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton COVID-19 Litigation Podcast Series
Jones Day Presents: What is Smart Code and How Does it Relate to Smart Contracts?
Tax Provisions in Business Acquisition Agreements
Once you decide to arbitrate rather than litigate, the next crucial step is ensuring the arbitration agreement is well-drafted. While arbitration offers businesses a private, efficient, and flexible method for resolving...more
Construction is an industry with a long history that stretches back thousands of years. Over time, the industry developed its own specialized language. Indeed, the “Oxford Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil...more
Back to basics – Do you even have a contract? Generally, a contract will be formed when parties come to an agreement through offer/acceptance. This doesn’t typically create problems where there is a written agreement between...more
Drafting and negotiating subcontracts can be tricky for both general contractors and subcontractors. General contractors are caught in between owners and subcontractors as the ones that will be held responsible for the work...more
Avoiding Risk and Responding to It - You are cordially invited to a panel discussion with industry leaders from the energy sector, hosted by BakerHostetler's Energy, International Trade and International Arbitration and...more
Perhaps you represent a U.S. company that is entering into a contract with an overseas entity, or vice versa. You are contemplating whether the contract should provide for arbitration or litigation in the event of a dispute....more
Over the past year, the TransPerfect team has attended numerous arbitration events, including International Disputes Weeks in Dublin and London to Arbitration Weeks in Perth, Paris, Toronto, and Hamburg. Across countless...more
Two recent Delaware Superior Court opinions are essential reading for M&A practitioners drafting language with respect to how disputes related to purchase price adjustments, earnouts, and other accounting-related...more
Arbitration agreements, at their core, are contracts. As with any contract, there must be “mutuality” or, more colloquially, a “meeting of the minds” on what the contract is intended to encompass. For this reason, employment...more
Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in Smith v. Spizzirri, 601 U.S. 472 (2024) and Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski, 144 S. Ct. 1186 (2024) provide important guidance for companies utilizing arbitration clauses in their...more
When there are two conflicting contracts—one requiring a court to address whether a case should be decided by arbitration or court action, and another requiring an arbitrator to address that issue—who decides which contract...more
Arbitration agreements are useful tools for California employers, but they are replete with potential dangers. An employer contemplating using arbitration in the workplace must evaluate whether it should be mandatory, the...more
Purchase agreements customarily contain provisions for resolving certain disputes by referring them to a third-party neutral decision-maker outside of litigation. For example, disputes over purchase price adjustments are...more
On January 15, 2024, the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") published updates to its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules and Fee Schedule, aimed at streamlining the mass arbitration process and reducing costs....more
This presentation will review best practices for ensuring agreement to arbitration clauses, drafting arbitration clauses, the plaintiff bar's ongoing efforts to invalidate the clauses and how best to craft a clause that is...more
Contractual engagements inevitably beget legal disputes. Even the best agreement is no guarantee the engagement will succeed. Accordingly, one of the most important provisions in any commercial agreement is the provision that...more
Disputes with vendors, business partners, customers and employees are inevitable. However, they are not top of mind when an emerging tech company has its sights set on growth. Many contentious issues can be avoided or reduced...more
In a perfect world, business owners could spend all of their time and money focusing on a singular task: running their business. Despite the best laid plans, however, at some point ancillary concerns will arise and...more
Kilpatrick Townsend Partners Rich Keshian, Chad Hansen, and Will Joyner recently participated on a panel at the firm’s 2022 Small Legal Department Client Summit. They discussed “Drafting & Navigating Dispute Resolution...more
Peter Morton and Tim Fox of K&L Gates discuss the practical implications of recent English case law on the question of which law will govern agreements to arbitrate, including for those drafting an arbitration clause in a...more
Once a month, we cover an interesting topic in 60 seconds. This month, International Disputes Partner Thomas G. Allen shares his thoughts on the current supply chain crisis....more
No good deed goes unpunished. Those of us working with 401(k) plans are familiar with this sentiment. An employee benefit plan, as the name implies, is supposed to benefit employees. Yet benefit plans – particularly 401(k)...more
Value Engineering Construction Arbitration - Designing a Better Process and Techniques Arbitrators Can Use to Help Parties Reach a Faster, More Cost-Effective Resolution - The rapid growth of construction arbitration...more
The life sciences space is ever-growing and dynamic as the industry witnesses more companies and, therefore, more collaboration, licensing and M&A agreements, come into the spotlight. While these deals are exciting...more
Can a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement compel international arbitration under the doctrine of equitable estoppel? Last year, in GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 1637...more