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New York Law Journal

Former Employees Sue The Messenger for Failure to Pay Severance, Breach of Contract

Two former employees of the now-defunct news website The Messenger filed an employment action against the site's parent company and its former owner this week alleging breaches of their employment contracts and violations of labor law after the company refused to issue their pair's severance payments.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Addressing AIA Contract Document Pitfalls

In their Construction Law column, Melissa Billig and Brandon Reiner discuss five pitfalls to avoid when using standardized industry form agreements with architects and contractors.
6 minute read

Law.com

Utah High Court Affirms Lower, 2.29% Postjudgment Rate in $9.5M Arbitration Dispute

"The UFJA provides a means of domesticating a foreign judgment and identifies how Utah courts must treat these domesticated judgments. Although the UFJA does not specifically address the question of postjudgment interest, subsection 78B-5-302(3) supports the district court's conclusion," Justice John Pearce said.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers, Do You Have a Written Contract With Your Housekeeper?

The law will create a significant, unprecedented set of new legal relationships, rights and burdens. At the same time it will create a significant new set of legal and enforceable duties on those who have hired domestic workers in the past with little in the way of legal rules.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Extraneous? Collateral? Is It Time to Simplify the Standard for When Fraud Claims Improperly Duplicate Breach of Contract Claims?

To promote commercial certainty and avoid a deluge of unnecessary litigation, it is important to have clear, easily applicable standards that govern when and whether tort claims duplicate contract claims impermissibly.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Amid Controversy Over Noncompetes, Carlton Fields Gets Key Victory

Five U.S. states have fully banned noncompete clauses: California, Colorado, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Minnesota.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Contract Drafting Provider Henchman Announces Integration with Microsoft Copilot

Henchman is one of the few legal technology providers to announce an integration with Microsoft's generative AI chatbot assistant, following similar partnerships by LawToolBox and Intapp.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Holland & Knight Lands $7.7M Award for Fertilizer Broker in International Dispute

"The ruling will serve as viable precedent in this jurisdiction moving forward involving this act," said Jason Baruch, a partner at Holland & Knight.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Mortgage Contingency Clauses; Riparian Rights: This Week in Scott Mollen's Realty Law Digest

Scott Mollen discusses "Mason v. Pembroke NY," where a purchaser breached contract by failing to comply with mortgage contingency clause in applying for a larger mortgage than permitted by the clause, and the riparian rights case "Talmidov Inc. v. Marina Holding Corp" involving an action for quiet title, ejectment, trespass and a declaration of easement by necessity relating to land submerged by a body of water near the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn.
19 minute read

New York Law Journal

Let's Imagine a Ban on Prenuptial Agreements

A look at how prenuptial agreements are being interpreted and enforced by the courts in an effort to see why divorce lawyers often see these agreements as "uniquely complex legal instruments that are fraught with the potential for peril."
7 minute read

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