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Contract Drafting
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ContractsProf Blog
Sid DeLong, Thirteen Ways, With Apologies to Wallace Stevens
Readers seeking to make sense of this effort are invited first to read Wallace Stevens’s, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdTHIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A CONTRACTSidney Wallace DeLongI.Three…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Supreme Court Splits on Contract Interpretation Issue
A majority of the Delaware Supreme Court recently ruled that a settlement agreement contained an enforceable obligation to negotiate in good faith with the goal of reaching a separate definitive…
Adams on Contract Drafting
“States”: It’s Here, It’s Clear, Get Used to It
By Ken Adams
Last week, during a session of my online course Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass, out of the blue I saw this in the chat window: I started using “states” and found…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Excuses for Sticking With Traditional Contract Language
By Ken Adams
Although no one publicly challenges my recommendations (see this 2018 blog post), I’ve occasionally encountered, in writing and in private exchanges with lawyers and law-school faculty, general arguments for sticking…
China Justice Observer
How Can A Chinese Court Determine the Transaction Content If there Is Only A Simple Order? – CTD 101 Series
By Publisher
If the contents of the purchase order or contract between you and the Chinese supplier are very simple, a Chinese court may refer to China’s Contract Law to interpret your…
A Lawyer's Blog
EXCEPTIONS TO GOL 5-321
TITUMIR v. BARKER AVE. ESTATES LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 50073 - NY: Supreme Court 2022:"It has long been held that absent a violation of law or some transgression of…
Adams on Contract Drafting
M&A Drafting: The Redundant Reference-Point Exception in the Bringdown Condition
By Ken Adams
I’ve been working on an article on the word material, so that sent me back to my book The Structure of M&A Contracts. The book is due for an update,…
Modern contract management blog
Contract Review Checklist: What to Look for When Reviewing a Contract?
By Olga Mack
Most of us have signed contracts without reviewing the terms, privacy disclosures, consumer rights, etc. Those are all generally low-stakes, but what if your business’s success depends on an agreement?…
Recreation Law
New way to beat a release, lie and say you signed it not your son.
However, fraud in signing a contract is usually not enough to get the agreement thrown out. This should be appealed. Bonnen v. Pocono Whitewater, Ltd. (M.D. Pa. 2021) State: Pennsylvania,…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
B.C. court interprets ‘commercially reasonable best efforts’ clause in a sale contract
Chambers judge deviated from an established rule of contractual interpretation, said court