Dustin and Brooks have owned a business together for years. They have no agreement. Dustin wants to retire and work on his golf handicap. Brooks wants to keep working and expand the business. They ...

Q. I recently worked for a small company on a temporary job. We verbally agreed on how much money I was to receive. It has been several weeks and I have received no payment for my work. Every time I ...

Q. I work as a consultant from home and perform tasks outlined in a contract I agreed to via e-mail. The contract obviously couldn’t be signed. Even though a lawyer told me the electronic document is ...

Many subcontractors assume that the oral promise of a general contractor to enter into a contract at some future point can be enforced against the contractor when they have submitted a proposal that ...

A: First, a caveat, though I am a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, and this is, in any case, a general interest small business column. So, while I can outline the basic applicable rules, nothing beats ...

A recent decision from the federal district of New Hampshire demonstrates why attorneys and web designers must find ways to communicate about the interplay between the law of contracts and web design ...

Q: My agency has landed a new group client: a large family reunion that meets once a year in a different city, and the family members fly from different parts of the country. There could be as many as ...