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sheika
over 3 years ago
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Supply Chain
By: Timothy Murray, MURRAY, HOGUE & LANNIS Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an amorphous concept that defies simple explanation. At its heart, CSR is a philosophy that a business entity has certain societal obligations beyond the bottom...
sheika
over 3 years ago
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The Courts Have Spoken: Lessons of the Covid-19 Force Majeure Cases
By: Timothy Murray, Murray, Hogue and Lannis The majestic New York State Supreme Court Building in Lower Manhattan has stood in regal watch over the tumult of the past century, a silent witness to every shade of humanity—from the disgraced movie...
Alainna Nichols
over 4 years ago
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Ten Things Every Attorney Should Know About Contracts (But May Not)
By: Timothy Murray , Murray Hogue and Lannis ONE TIME I FOUND MYSELF IN A BREACH OF CONTRACT TRIAL before a grizzled jurist who seemed to have as much familiarity with contract law as I have with high fashion (none). I would like to say that he compensated...
Alainna Nichols
over 4 years ago
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Force Majeure and Coronavirus (COVID-19): Seven Critical Lessons from the Case Law
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis There is a veritable pandemic raging, and I’m not referring to COVID-19. It’s a pandemic of webinars and legal articles about force majeure and COVID-19. Sadly, no lawyer is immune from it...
Alainna Nichols
over 5 years ago
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Coronavirus and Force Majeure Checklist
By: Glenn Gordon , Lexis Practice Advisor This Coronavirus and Force Majeure Checklist provides guidance on issues and measures counsel should consider when determining the applicability of the coronavirus with respect to force majeure clauses in your...
Alainna Nichols
over 5 years ago
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Drafting Choice-of-Law Provisions
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis ONE TIME I FOUND MYSELF ON THE SET OF A HOLLYWOOD soundstage for a popular television show about a lawyer. In the law library of the fake TV law firm, I noticed something that viewers at home couldn’t...
Alainna Nichols
over 5 years ago
The Journal
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Drafting Enforceable Arbitration Agreements: Hottest Issue in Contract Law
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue and Lannis Arbitration agreements are supposed to ensure that disputes are resolved outside of court, and that’s why it’s an irony of almost cosmic proportions that “the enforceability of arbitration...
Alainna Nichols
over 5 years ago
The Journal
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Drafting Landmines: Warranties for the Sale of Goods
By: Timothy Murray , Murray Hogue and Lannis The word warranty isn’t just mired in confusion; it leaps, dives, and wallows in it. It means so many different things that the great Karl Llewellyn, the chief architect of the Uniform Commercial Code...
Alainna Nichols
over 6 years ago
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The Misunderstood but Critically Important Merger Clause
By: Timothy Murray , Murray Hogue & Lannis ONE TIME IN AN ARBITRATION, THE PLAINTIFF CLAIMED that my client, the defendant, breached an alleged oral agreement that my client denied entering into. It was undisputed that after the alleged oral agreement...
Alainna Nichols
over 6 years ago
The Journal
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Drafting Exclusion of Consequential Damages Clauses
By: Timothy Murray ONE TIME, I WAS REVIEWING THE TERMS OF A PROPOSED contract with an executive for a client that was buying a product for a significant sum of money. The document had been drafted by the seller, and it contained the customary provision...
Evansj5
over 6 years ago
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Drafting Blunder: Hiding Contractual Provisions in Documents That Don’t Look, Feel, or Smell Like Contracts
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis BUSINESSES OFTEN CONDUCT THEIR TRADES BY UTILIZING documents that don’t appear to be contractual in nature but that contain contractual provisions—the information brochure accompanying a smartphone...
Evansj5
over 6 years ago
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Liquidated Damages Drafting Blunders
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis Parties drafting contracts often want to set in stone the precise dollar amount of damages that will be awarded in the event of a breach, commonly called liquidated damages. The idea is that if a breach...
Alainna Nichols
over 7 years ago
The Journal
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Insurance Coverage Issues Created by The Internet
By: Ellen MacDonald Farrell and Rachel P. Raphael Crowell & Moring Today, billions of different devices are connected to the internet, and the internet-capability of everyday objects is expected to grow exponentially in the years to come. The Internet...
Evansj5
over 7 years ago
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Drafting Advice: Avoiding Disastrous Force Majeure Clauses
By: Timothy Murray MURRAY, HOGUE & LANNIS Botched Force Majeure Clauses Expose Your Client to Needless Risk As if on autopilot, attorneys sometimes tack onto their contracts generic force majeure clauses, just because everybody else does it...
Alainna Nichols
over 7 years ago
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Drafting Advice: Avoiding Accidental Contracting
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis THERE IS A STAGGERING AMOUNT OF LITIGATION involving disputes over whether a binding contract was formed during contract negotiations. In a typical case of this kind, the parties agree on many issues...
Evansj5
over 7 years ago
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Navigating Compliance Concerns
By: Terrance Oben OBEN LEGAL THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES PRACTICAL STEPS THAT companies can take to successfully embed...
Alainna Nichols
over 7 years ago
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Contract Drafting Advice: The “Battle of the Forms” Demystified
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis. SECTION 2-207 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (UCC) was supposed to resolve these questions: (1) Is a contract formed when parties exchange forms that contain nonmatching terms and the parties don’t...
Evansj5
over 7 years ago
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Current Updates and Legal Developments - Fall 2017
SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE VII REMAINS HOT-BUTTON ISSUE By: Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin, Volume 17, Issue 7 RECENTLY, THREE OF THE U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL addressed the issue of whether discrimination...
Ryan Mantia
over 7 years ago
The Journal
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Contract Drafting Concerns: Beware Browsewrap
By: Timothy Murray , MURRAY, HOGUE AND LANNIS With the e-commerce explosion, sellers are peddling goods and services over their websites at unprecedented rates. From a contract law perspective, this ought to be a seller’s nirvana: the seller...
Ryan Mantia
over 7 years ago
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Contractual Joint Ventures – Drafting and Negotiating Joint Marketing Agreements
By: Candice Choh and Kari Krusmark, GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP A joint marketing agreement is a contract pursuant to which one or both of the parties will collaborate in order to promote the sale of product and service offerings of the other party...
Ashley Erazo
over 8 years ago
The Journal
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A Briefing on Emerging Issues Impacting Transactional Practice - Winter 2017
FEDERAL COURT FAST TRACKS REVIEW OF RULING BLOCKING IMPLEMENTATION OF OVERTIME REGULATIONS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ISSUED A BRIEF order December 8 granting expedited review of a November 22 ruling by a federal judge in the Eastern District...