If you do business in the state of Ohio, you likely deal with contracts. Depending on the nature of the transaction, the applicable law can be either the original, common-law based structure or the more recent Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as it has been adopted by...
Partnership for the Good of Your Business
Month: June 2015
What is an integration clause?
Negotiating a contract between two businesses can become a drawn-out process, and it is not uncommon for the parties to the agreement to have held multiple meetings in which proposed terms were discussed or written down, oral understandings were exchanged, or even a...
Choice of law provisions in contracts: why they matter
If your company does business with international partners, and especially if these transactions involve buying and selling goods, you may discover that to many foreign business people the American penchant for detailed contracts that seek to anticipate and address as...
What is the contractual effect of unilateral and mutual mistakes?
Parties to an agreement, particularly a business agreement, do not operate in an environment of perfect knowledge. Sometimes after entering into a contract either or both of the parties to it may realize that a mistake has occurred in the way the contract was written...
