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Enabling the business, lawyers-turned-CEOs, the future of contracts, and more - find out what you can expect from the latest issue of our quarterly, community-led publication, The Bundle. What are the…
New York Business Divorce
Cooked or Raw? Enforceability of Partly Signed Operating Agreements
In this week's New York Business Divorce, we consider a recurring problem with LLC operating agreements: enforceability of the writing when it is unexecuted or partially executed. A growing body…
Trade Secrets Trends
Untangling a Messy Dispute: No Misappropriation for Trade Secret Use Authorized by Agreement
A recent case from the Sixth Circuit, addressing a source code agreement, highlights the importance of carefully specifying what happens to source code (and the trade secrets therein) after breach…
ContractsProf Blog
“Constructive Tuesday” Top Ten – Contracts & Commercial Law Downloads for November 3, 2021
By Mark Burge
Some days are "one of those days," like yesterday for yours truly. But the Tuesday Top Ten is not bound by the pedestrian constraints of the time-space continuum! We hereby…
The Faculty Lounge
Recent Contract Disputes In The Transplant World
Readers may be interested in two relatively recent lawsuits involving the National Kidney Registry (NKR) and the University of Colorado Hospital Authority (“UCH,” filed 3/26/21) and the University of Maryland…
It's Just Business
NC Business Court Refuses to Strike a Most-Favored-Nation Clause Challenged as Hopelessly Vague by Pork Industry Titan
Hog Supplier Allowed Discovery to Prove Smithfield Foods Impermissibly Favored Other Vendors Despite Contract Clause The paths that lead to the North Carolina Business Court are often paved with the…
Adams on Contract Drafting
Contracts as Incantation
By Ken Adams
Here’s one of today’s tweets: Today's pioneering plain-English initiative: god's acts>acts of god — Ken Adams (@AdamsDrafting) October 29, 2021 It wasn’t entirely inane. A symptom of legalistic jargon is…
Legal Evolution
CLM Simplified Part II: What is CLM?, Legal Policy Review, Templates (270)
By Lucy Bassli
[caption id="attachment_16255" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] [click on to enlarge][/caption] "Contracts are the lifeline of the company, so it’s no wonder it is an ongoing cycle." Chapter 2, What is CLM? The…
Lawrina Blog
Trick or treat: 10 lawyers’ worst nightmares about contracts
By Lilia
Drafting and reviewing contracts is already scary enough. But how does it make you feel when you open a revised copy of a contract with no changes highlighted? Or when…
Canna Law Blog
There is No Such Thing as Boilerplate in a Cannabis Contract
If you’re still at the point where you are playing lawyer sometimes or all of the time with your cannabis business contracts, then this post is for you. I grew…