This article shares a chapter of a compendium being compiled of common terms in various types of contracts. The chapter so shared focuses on confidentiality provisions in contracts and details common specifications for marking confidential...
This is a presentation which was given to an incubator in San Antonio. The focus of the presentation shared in this article was common questions and legal choices which face web startups and designers in the early stages of their business...
Representations and warranties is the common name of a section found in most business contracts wherein the parties make various assertions. To contract neophytes, the meanings of the individual assertions in one of these sections (a...
The slides from a presentation on developments in eDiscovery and Electronically Stored Information (ESI) are shared in this article. The slides explain what ESI is, what it includes and how it is treated in litigation. It then goes...
Ever wonder if your digital signature was good enough? In this PC World article by Angela West, I help answer that question.
When selling your business, why would you, as the seller, want to expressly promise not to compete with the business you just sold for some time after the sale? As this article points out, courts operating under New York law have, absent an...
This article notes that transacting with a vendor creates a special subset of problems given their ability to damage your business's brand or reputation. A common solution to this problem involves negative incentive clauses; this article makes...
Get the latest on the Senate's passage of the Crowdfunding Exemption and JOBS Act. Startup companies and emerging companies will soon have more options to acquire capital.
This article concerns the enforceability of specific terms contained in Facebook's Terms of Service--in particular, the requirement that Facebook users agree not to use trademarks held by the social media giant, such as the term "book." ...
This article reviews a recent trend among some employers which represents an extremely bad idea--monitoring prospective employees' social media accounts. The article paints a vivid picture of a hiring manager looking over a would-be employee's...