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eDiscovery Bytes
#CaseoftheWeek Episode 89: You Are What You Agreed To—A Cautionary Tale of Self-Collection
We’re in the last few weeks of the year, and we’re feeling extremely grateful for an amazing year. The Case of the Week series, produced in partnership with ACEDS, has…
China Law Insight
新型冠状病毒感染肺炎爆发对中国商品买卖合同的影响
By King & Wood
作者：Michael Lawson 赵曰耀 潘永光 最近爆发的新型冠状病毒感染肺炎疫情（"疫情"）引起了全世界的高度关注。世界卫生组织宣布疫情构成"国际关注的突发公共卫生事件"，而中国政府为遏制疫情扩散采取了各项重要的防治措施。国际商品买卖合同的各方可能因疫情的爆发而面临合同履行的相关问题，例如，疫情是否影响了买方的履约能力，买方是否可以基于合同提出救济及对整体合同关系的影响。很显然，这些问题对于卖方来说同样非常重要。在本文中，我们对一些关键问题进行探讨，并就各方如何维护自身的合同利益尝试提出一些务实的建议。 阅读更多
ContractsProf Blog
More News from the World Cup of Contracts
The New York Times provides two separate stories that those inclined towards conspiratorial thinking might think are linked. First, Adam Crafton reports in the Times curated collection of longish-form sports journalism, The…
Reinventing Professionals
Transforming Contracts with Natural Language Processing
By Ari Kaplan
I spoke with Horace Wu, the Founder and CEO of Syntheia, a contract data search and analytics company. We discussed how improvements in natural language processing technologies have affected the…
Janzen Ag Law Blog
The Digitalization of Grain Contracts
By Todd Janzen
At the recent American Ag Law Association conference, I presented on a panel on how grain trading is moving from paper to digital contracting at all points in the supply…
ContractsProf Blog
Seventh Circuit: It Is Possible to Make a Contract with a Fictitious Entity
I've been coming across a lot of cases involving marijuana businesses. The cases often have facts that are odd or peculiar, as though the people running these businesses are not…
SpotDraft Blog
An In-depth Look at Standardized Contracts
By SpotDraft
See how to achieve contract standardization and when is the right time for doing so. Also, get a glimpse of examples and characteristics of standardized contracts.
Business Law Legal Research Blog
CONTRACTS: Importance of Carefully Drafting Contractual Choice-of-Law Clauses
By cjhicksnlrg-com-charlene-j-hicks
Charlene Hicks—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group It is common enough for an overworked attorney drafting a contract to regard a choice-of-law clause as boilerplate and therefore not in…
ContractsProf Blog
Guest Post from Hila Keren Responding to Yesterday’s Post on 303 Creative
Freedom of Contract and Market Citizenship at SCOTUSHila KerenI am very grateful for Jeremy Telman's recent contribution to this blog, which explains how 303 Creative v Elenis—soon to be heard…
Trade Secrets Trends
Trade Secrets Food Fight Spotlights Importance of Comprehensive Agreements
A judge in the Northern District of Texas recently declined to dismiss a lawsuit, CiCi Enterprises LP et al. v. Mucho Pizza, LLC et al., alleging a pizza franchisee failed…