We’re talking bailments, folks. When I ask you to hold my beer, I am entrusting you with the safekeeping of my beer. Or, in the case of a cargo ship full of luxury autos, the safe transport of my cars from Europe to North America. Just like the baton in a relay race, the chainContinue reading Here, Hold My Beer and Watch This
It doesn’t take much disruption to throw things into chaos when you’re operating “just in time”. And, let’s face it, there is an abundance of chaos right now. Great minds all over are grasping (here’s one current academic article). It might seem tempting to want to sue to enforce a contract (or to cancel aContinue reading The “Over/Under” on Supply Chain Disruptions
A key aspect of the alphabet soup of data protection laws is vendor risk management. You should be aghast to learn that your vendor was storing all of your customers’ data on a billboard… or in a completely unsecured database. It’s like learning the babysitter left your kids at the house and went out onContinue reading Data, Left Alone and Unsupervised
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Quite often, your vendors’ contracts will include a choice of law provision and a forum selection clause. For example: This Agreement is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to its principles of conflicts of law. Any litigation arising out of this Agreement shall beContinue reading Choose Your Poison
You have some real estate. It’s mortgaged. The mortgage company requires you to carry insurance. So the insurance company should pay directly to your mortgage company, and not to you, if the property burns to the ground and there is no longer any collateral for the bank to foreclose on, right? Wrong. Your insurance policyContinue reading The Best Insurance is …
The US Supreme Court just ruled in a bankruptcy case, where the defaulting debtor used a corporate shell game to try to avoid paying its debt. If you’d like to read the nuances over what does and does not constitute a fraud exception to a creditor being able to gets dollars on their dollars instead ofContinue reading Show Me the Money
You have probably never heard of the obscure legal phrase – “the Statute of Frauds”. And that’s good. Way back in the 1600’s, folks finally decided that “he said, she said” is a really bad way to decide if there is a contract and what that contract does and doesn’t say. The best way toContinue reading Living and Breathing the Statute of Frauds
