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Contract Drafting
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The Faculty Lounge
Catching My Eye
Most of us appreciate the opportunity to discuss ethical issues in our doctrinal courses. With that thought in mind, those who teach first-year contracts (or courses with a drafting component)…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Supreme Court Decides Claim Not Covered by Arbitration Clause
Kuhn Constr. Co. v. Diamond State Port Corp., No. 124, 2009 (Del. Supr. Mar. 8, 2010), read opinion here. In this rare reversal of the Court of Chancery, the Delaware…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : March 12, 2010
It's Friday and LexBlog HQ in Seattle is winding down its excellent end-of-week-meeting. What better way to end the week than with the biggest post total of the last five…
ContractsProf Blog
Another UNLV Conference Paper Available on SSRN
Yair Listokin presented his paper, "Bayesian Contractual Interpretation" at the Spring Contracts Conference at UNLV last week. Yesterday, the written version showed up in my e-mail via a Social Science…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
The Missing Comma, Fraud and Legal Malpractice
In Seaview Mezzanine Fund, LP v. LoPresti, 2010 NY Slip Op 30350(U), decided by Justice York on February 18, 2010, in New York County, we see a well written explanation of…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Scholarship alert: “The Ethics of Contract Drafting”
This article is by Professor Gregory M. Duhl of William Mitchell College of Law. It's forthcoming in the spring edition of the Lewis and Clark Law Review but for now…
InsureReinsure
UK: Incorporation of Arbitration Clauses by General Words
Habas Sinai Ve Tibbi Gazlar Isthisal Endustri As ("Habas") v Sometal S.A.L. [2010] EWHC 29 (Comm) concerned an application to set aside an interim final award on jurisdiction and costs…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
A misplaced comma can lead to grief and then litigation
Here are a couple of stories from Ken Adams' blog on contracts, which has been recognized for excellence by the online ABA Journal, about how a misplaced comma can materially change the meaning…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
The jurisdiction where a contract is created may be the appropriate forum to determine the extent of coverage available under the contract. Regardless of where the damages occurred.
An application alleging lack of jurisdiction was dismissed where the court found that Saskatchewan was the more appropriate forum to try an action that involved the interpretation of an insurance…
Legal Profession Blog
Authority Arguers (Litigating Lawyers) Versus Authority Creators (Transactional Lawyers): It’s Still All Outside-In
Posted by Jeff LipshawSome time ago, I wrote an article, largely in reaction to an article Richard Posner had written on contract interpretation, suggesting that there was far less connection…