When your lawyers lack imagination, it could cost you $5.5 million. Cognitive psychologist and author Steven Pinker wrote that writing requires imagination. Writers, according to Pinker, have to imagine interacting with their audience without the benefit of direct feedback, such as verbal response, facial expression,...
In the final of three videos I made about quick and dirty tips to spot poor quality contracts, I wrap up my thoughts. These three tips, and the other seven I talk about in the other videos are available in text form by signing up...
This is the second video in my series on quick and dirty tips to spot poor quality contracts. When you are working with your attorney to draft contracts, you, as the client, have the power to tell an attorney that you will not accept contracts...
Contracts are documents that need to be understood by all the parties that sign them, but sometimes spotting a contract that might be difficult to understand is not the easiest for non-lawyers. Well, this video will give a few tips to help avoid wasting your...
Earlier this week, I posted a discussion on the waste of resources that comes with poorly written contracts. I had an exercise in that post that discussed how long it took to review a short 170 word passage of a contract. I promised to detailed...
I read a lot of contracts in my work and despite the nature of the contract, what it is for, and what it is about. I would say 98 percent of them suffer from the same infirmity...
On this blog, I try not to get too political. The practice of law is complicated enough without getting involved in the political arena beyond simply reporting what has become law and how it will impact clients. But I feel compelled to do get political...
Over the past couple of months, I have assisted a few clients in dealing with trademark cease and desist letters. A cease-and-desist letter is just like it sounds, a demand by a trademark owner to another business to stop using their trademark. Often these letters...
One of the most difficult things for companies looking to have key employees, or any employees, sign a non-compete agreement is that most states have at-will employment. While at-will employment is highly beneficial in terms of labor market movement and the ability for employers to...