Contracts are the backbone of many business deals. It’s imperative that this written set of expectations and terms for transactions and agreements reflect what both parties agreed to. Because contracts are enforceable in court, you should ensure that your company only...
OK, it finally passed. Now, here's the uppercase question: What next? A federal rule declared last week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has understandably enthused -- even enthralled -- scores of millions of consumers across the country and principals with...
You live with the contractual terms you knowingly agreed with. Although there are certain limited exceptions to that dictum (select permutations, if you will; public policy restraints come readily to mind), most adults who execute contracts in California and...
Hartford Life principals argue that they're simply trying to inject some common sense and boundaries regarding reasonable parameters germane to a key contract provision in select life insurance contracts inked with California policyholders. State class action...
It was obviously important that the contractual dispute between a Southern California municipal transportation entity and a bus company providing riding services to approximately 800,000 customers each day get resolved, and in an optimal manner. Seemingly, it did,...
This could get ugly. Well, uglier, actually, given that it is already unquestionably contentious and, given the recent filing of a civil lawsuit for contractual breach, distinctly trending in a direction away from amicability and quick resolution. Here's what is the...
Contracts are supposed to be legally binding agreements. What is a college professor to do, however, when his or her employer backs out on their half of the agreement? It is just such a situation that professors of San Francisco State University in California are...
We discussed in overview fashion the rationale and parameters of non-competition agreements in a recent blog post. Specifically, we noted in our March 28 post entry that, "Judicial scrutiny of a non-compete is customarily close and exacting, and proceeds with due...
The employer/worker relationship is both reciprocal and symbiotic: Each party has distinct and singular needs of its own, yet both need each other. And that give and take -- that inherent tension, if you will -- can sometimes make for an uneasy balance at the...
When a person thinks about contract disputes, he or she probably thinks about builders who don't meet the needs of a homeowner or a city that doesn't like the work going on in a neighborhood. There are many kinds of contract disputes that can affect people, though,...
