Contract Law

When looking for a business partner, your goal should be to find someone who makes your new company stronger than it would be without them. Ideally, your partner will be looking for the same thing in you. This means that you don’t necessarily want to find someone who...

There are various remedies available for you when a party breaches the terms of a legally binding contract. These remedies are meant to make you whole or, in other words, restore you to the position you would have been in had the breach not occurred. Specific...

Initially, your small business started out as a one-person operation. Due to the success of the company over the years, you needed to establish a team of employees to share the workload with. In fact, you’re constantly seeking to bring in new talent.  Employment...

Some types of businesses rely on non-competition (or non-compete) provisions to prevent employees from taking what they’ve learned about their methods and strategies or proprietary information to a job with a rival company and harming their ability to compete in the...

Contracts are the foundation upon which businesses, size notwithstanding, are created and operated. In fact, most businesses are founded by contracts. Still, businesses hire employees using contracts. But what happens when you learn that the contract you signed while...

Many contract violations simply involve a delivery not being made or services not being rendered. A business may have put in an order from a supplier that never showed up at the loading dock, for instance.  The contract is violated because the other party didn't...

As a part of your employment contracts, you make sure to have confidentiality agreements in place. You don’t want to spend all this time putting together your business plan and building up your brand just to have someone share your research and ideas with a...

All businesses require reliable employees to carry out daily operations. It’s not always easy to secure competent staff, but it’s certainly possible.  When you’ve managed to do this, you want to think about different ways of making them feel valued and secure. You...

A supplier that fails you could ruin all the hard work you put in to build your business up. For example, you have a reputation for producing the best Italian-style pizza in town. If you cannot get the quality of flour, cheese, olive oil and other essential...

While compensatory damages are the most common remedies following a breach of contract, they are not the only available options. Depending on the nature of your contract, other remedies may exist to provide you relief in case the other party breaches the contract. In...