Contract Mapping: Taking the Diligence Room and Contract Transparency to the Next Level
Traditional methods of tracking contracts miss the opportunity to provide meaningful context and insight relating to the contracts of the company to management, the board members, auditors, and investors. ...Read more
Gunnar Wieboldt
Former SVP, General Counsel, Vestaron Corporation, USA
Negotiating IT Service Contracts –
In House v Private Practice Legal Models
I have been privileged to work over my career as a partner in private practice with leading City firms in London and as a senior in-house lawyer in global companies....Read more
Clive Davies
Senior Counsel and Professional Development Manager Legal & Commercial, UK&I, Fujitsu Services Limited, UK
Contracts as a Learning Cycle
Not all contracts are the same. In fact, a strategic goal among business people is to develop what are called relational contracts. Relational contracts reside at the opposite end...Read more
David Orozco
Bank of America Professor of Business Administration, Florida State University, USA
Cash is King in the UK Construction Industry
The coronation of the King has long since passed and all celebrations are complete but in these straightened times cash is still the undisputed king in the UK construction industry....Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, Barrister (Direct Public Access and Authorised Litigator) UK - AP Legal Direct , UK
No Contract is an Island
Contract liability and liability under a contract can be seen as two separate concepts. The former covers liabilities arising under contract law; the latter covers all the actual and potential...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
An Introduction to Alliance Contracting
At its simplest, an alliance contract (known in British Columbia (BC) as the project alliance agreement or PAA) is a contract between a project Owner (the Owner Participant or the...Read more
Karen Mill
Assistant Vice President, Legal, Canada
Elizabeth Mayer
Partner, DLA Piper, Canada
The Roads to Freedom of Contract
John Paul Sartre’s philosophical novels that make up the trilogy of “the Roads to Freedom”, first screened by the BBC in the 1970’s, were given a complete re-run recently, all...Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, UK
Service Descriptions and Service Levels in the Digital World
As lawyers negotiating a contract we have a duty to our clients to protect their legal, commercial and business interests and we do so with great enthusiasm and skill for...Read more
Clive Davies
Senior Counsel and Professional Development Manager Legal & Commercial, UK&I, Fujitsu Services Limited, UK
Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT [2021] UKSC 29
An Untested Point?
The recent Supreme Court decision in Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT [2021] UKSC 29, delves into a range of issues that should interest commercial contract lawyers. However, I’d like...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
World Pandemic - Dichotomy of Force Majeure
Singularity is an interesting concept of theoretical physics. Colloquially explained, a singularity is a location in space-time where all known laws of physics suffer complete breakdown. Without the cushion of...Read more
Lokanath Kar
Chief - Legal and Compliance, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited, India