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Personal Liability Contract Drafting

Freiberger Haber LLP

First Department Reminds Practitioners that “proofreading is an essential, indispensable tool in the drafting of contracts”

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It should go without saying that people make mistakes. After all, people are human, and humans make mistakes. When people draft a document, especially a lengthy or complex one, it is not uncommon for a mistake to be...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Eliminating Fiduciary Duties in a Closely Held Business

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Longstanding Massachusetts law holds that officers, directors, partners, and even equity holders in closely held corporations owe their respective entities and related equity holders a fiduciary duty to act with the utmost...more

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Ghost Offers in Real Estate Transactions

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Too Clever by Half - Not so long ago I received a draft agreement of purchase and sale from a practitioner in which he named his purchaser client as “John Doe, in trust, and without personal liability, for a corporation...more

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