Don't Get Stuck With a Jersey Contract
Oral contracts are just that, words in the air. Put any agreement in writing if you want it to be worth something. Read more
Contract Law
How to Effectively Handle Legal Action
Advice on how best to deal with lawsuits from Kay Koplovitz, founder of USA Network, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Watch video
China’s Bubble: What It Means to Your Business
Beijing is nursing a real-estate bubble proportionately larger than our own in 2005. If it bursts, the aftershock will hit every business in the U.S. Read more
How to Negotiate a Contract With a Big Client
What you push for in your contract negotiation Read more
Managing Independent Contractors
Due to the independent nature of contract work, it can be a tricky thing to manage, even for experienced CEOs. Here's a look at the best practices for when to retain and how to manage an independent contractor. Read more
Recent Contract Law Articles
How to Keep Office Romance From Poisoning the Workplace
With office romance on the rise -- and employees are worrying less about hiding it -- here's how to keep from flirting with disaster. Read more
Do You Take This Co-worker to be Your Lawfully Consensual Partner?
The rise of attempted wrongful termination suits leads employers to issue love contracts. Read more
Renegotiate That Contract
Business owners toss previously-negotiated agreements out the window to bargain for reduced prices. Read more
Time to Renegotiate Vendor Contracts?
With the economy in major slowdown mode, now may be a good time to try renegotiating some of those one-sided vendor contracts you entered into in better time... Read more
The Rebranding Game
If at first you pick the wrong name, you can always try, try again. Read more
Paradise Lost
How had it come to this? Reell Precision Manufacturing was supposed to be a different kind of company. For years, it thrived, leading its industry, generatin... Read more
When Good Deals Go Bad [Audio] 
Every company gets stuck in bad contracts. Think there's no escape? Think again. Reporter Sarah Goldstein explains. Watch video
When Good Deals Go Bad
How to renegotiate a contract. Read more
Hiring Temps? Here's How to Keep it Legal
What do you do when you need a qualified person quickly for a short-term project? For many the obvious answer is to hire a contingent worker or "temp" fr... Read more
Got a New Job? Better Check That Non-Compete Clause
Few would dispute the ability of the Internet to generate and spread information instantly and on a global basis. And few would deny that the Internet has... Read more
Credit Card Laundering Is Dirty Business
Credit card laundering, sometimes referred to as "factoring," works like this: A company that does not have a credit card merchant account with a bank or ... Read more
Keeping Your Contracts Simple--and Enforceable
For most contracts, legalese is not essential or even helpful. On the contrary, contractual agreements are best expressed in simple, everyday English. Read more
Let Your PC Draw Up the Contract
When Munchkin Inc., a manufacturer and designer of infant products in Van Nuys, Calif., needed to prepare its second international-distribution agreement,... Read more
Where Are They Now?
What happens to a company after reaching number one on the Inc. 500? Find out the current status of the past 14 top-spot holders. Read more
A Business Owner's Guide to Preventive Law
A look at some ongoing steps you need to take to trim your legal bills. Read more
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