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Planning Your Contract Management System

Paralegal Bootcamp

When paralegals are looking at alternative paralegal careers outside the popular litigation paralegal field, contract management does not usually come to mind. However, there seems to be an increase in paralegal job opportunities in the field of contract management. But what exactly is contract management?

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Arbitration clauses, prejudicial delays, and one justice’s contract-law “nightmare”

SCOTUSBlog

Sundance had included in Morgan’s job application an arbitration clause, which meant that the company could have immediately sought to put the litigation on hold, and to require Morgan to resolve her case through individual arbitration. This case mainly involves two sections of the Federal Arbitration Act.

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Lex Machina Releases 2021 Contracts Litigation Report

LegalReader

Contracts case filings over the last three years showed a slight but steady increase through the pandemic, while franchise case filings fell sharply and damages awarded continued to climb.

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Tomorrow’s AAPrIL seminar: Benjamin Haward on The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: Adoption and interpretation in Australia

Conflict of Laws

Abstract Australia adopted the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – a treaty intended to harmonise cross-border sale of goods law – in 1989. He has published in Australia and internationally in private international law, international commercial arbitration, and the CISG.

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How Do You Sue a Company for Breach of Contract?

LegalReader

There are several other requirements for a valid contract, including the legality of the agreement and the freedom of the parties to negotiate or reject the other’s offer. .

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Paralegal Schools Forget to Mention These Things

Paralegal Bootcamp

A word to the wise: if you absolutely have to be out of the office no later than 5, either to pick up the kids at daycare or something else that’s not flexible with time – do NOT choose the litigation practice area. Back when I used to work in a law firm, I regularly worked 60-hour weeks. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION?

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Is turnabout fair play under the Federal Arbitration Act?

SCOTUSBlog

But what happens if a party begins to litigate a case, and then seeks to compel arbitration several months later? Section 2 of the FAA says that contracts to arbitrate “shall be … enforceable,” except where there are “grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.” In Morgan v.

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