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CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY'S FEES
Section 1717: $68,960 Fee Award Affirmed Because 1717 Is Not Limited To Specific Contractual Provisions
Entire Contract Must Be Considered in Fashioning Fee Award. Acting Presiding Justice O’Leary, from our local Fourth District, Division 3, has penned a 3-0 decision that reminds us of the…
ContractsProf Blog
6th International Conference on Contracts
Stetson University College of Law and Texas Wesleyan School of Law are co-sponsoring the 6th Annual International Conference on Contracts, February 18 and 19, 2011, at Stetson’s beautiful campus in…
China Law Update Blog
New Law Integrates China’s Scattered Private International Law Rules For Foreign-Related Civil Relationships
On October 28, 2010, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Application of Law for Foreign-related Civil Relationships”…
ContractsProf Blog
Patterson on contract and antitrust in standard form contracts
If you were at the Fourth International Conference on Contracts at McGeorge two years ago, you heard Mark Patterson (Fordham) present his work-in--progress exploring the intersection between contract law and…
ContractsProf Blog
Attorneys’ fees clauses in contracts: America v. England
Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell) and Geoffrey Miler (NYU) have a new paper, The English vs. The American Rule on Attorneys Fees: An Empirical Study of Attorney Fee Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies'…
ContractsProf Blog
New edition of Blum’s Examples & Explanations
Our beloved Official Blog Sponsor, Aspen Publishing/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business -- may good fortune always shine on them -- is out with a new edition of (IMO) one of the…
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This may remind you of The Merchant of Venice
There's a nice little classroom hypothetical brewing over in Germany, where a man paid the equivalent of £3700 for his girlfriend's breast augmentation surgery, in exchange for her agreement to…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Airgas: Potato, potahto.
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
The Deal Prof has a run-down on the Airgas decision. He has it about right: The signal this reversal sends is that it basically says don’t worry about the language of…
ContractsProf Blog
Ms. Quinn, Mr. Lonnegan is on line six . . . .
I've never watched Dancing With the Stars and probably couldn't tell Bristol Palin from Bristol Myers in a police line-up, so I have absolutely no interest in whether she wins the TV…
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Mortenson on McNabb-Redskins contract
Quarterback Donovan McNabb today had one of his best outsings in hia worst NFL season, leading the Washington Redskins (5-5) to a 19-16 overtime win against the Tennessee Titans. His new contract extension…