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Contract Drafting
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Construction Payment Blog
Document Crunch Aims to Simplify Contract Review in Construction
By Tom Scalisi
We don’t give the construction industry the credit it deserves when it comes to evolution. But very once in a while, new technology shows up and changes the way construction…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Texas Appraisal Law Update
INTRODUCTION: Appraisal provisions have been a feature of insurance policies in Texas for well over a century.1 Indeed, in the Texas Supreme Court’s 2009 opinion of State Farm Lloyds v.…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Government fills the void for unfair contract term enforcement
By Ray Giblett (AU), Timothy Chan (AU)
Following its adoption by insurers in April this year, unfair contract terms laws are set for another revamp. The Treasury has just released draft legislation which will make unfair contract…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Pelopidas, LLC v. Keller: An Opinion Showing How Courts and Litigators Might Use “A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting”
By Ken Adams
Yesterday I learned of an opinion—hot off the presses—of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division One, by Judge Kelly C. Broniec. The case is Pelopidas, LLC v. Keller,…
Allens Insights
Casual employees: High Court confirms that post-contractual conduct has no role to play in interpreting wholly written contracts of employment
By Allens
In brief 3 min read On 3 August 2021, the High Court handed down its long-awaited decision in WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato & Ors1 which confirms that Mr Rossato…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Managing the Categories of Contract Language So You Tell the Story Concisely: An Example
By Ken Adams
Wearing my LegalSifter hat, today I researched how contracts refer to inspection of goods. In doing so, I encountered the following in this Yara purchase order (selected at random): All…
New York Commercial Division Practice
Free Rein Venue Choices? Not So Fast Says the Commercial Division
The principles of jurisdiction and venue are paramount when determining not only where a proceeding will be conducted, but also which particular laws will govern the proceeding. Typically, contracting parties…
California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
When One Party's Professional Decides The Sufficiency Of That Party's Performance
Often parties to a contract will agree that a third party will make the final call as to whether an obligation has been performed or an amount to be determined…
LawSites
Cheetah for Corporate Counsel Now Allows Access to Lawgood For Contract Drafting
By Bob Ambrogi
Subscribers to Cheetah for Corporate Counsel, a legal research platform from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., now have direct access to Lawgood, a practice tool for drafting contracts and…
Ship Law Log
Court of Appeal clarifies that term in trade recap stating that certificate of quality is final and binding is not qualified
By Nick Austin, Nick Moon
BP GTCs 2007: Septo Trading Inc v Tintrade Limited [2021] EWCA Civ 718 Introduction In Septo Trading Inc v Tintrade Limited ([2021] EWCA Civ 718) the Court of Appeal overturned…