Common contract disputes and the types of litigation claims associated with those contracts include: Real property sales and purchase contracts.These contracts frequently give rise to claims for breach of contract, specific performance, constructive trust, improper disclosures, and fraud. Real estate lease agreements.Commercial lease and residential lease contracts give rise to claims for breach of contract, […]
Attorneys’ Fees in Unpaid Wage Cases
What if I can’t afford to hire a lawyer? We take cases on a contingency, meaning we only collect a fee if we recover for you. Our contingency fee is based upon a percentage of the amount that we are able to recover for you. We also offer an hourly fee arrangement and a blended […]
Unpaid Overtime Cases: Calculating Damages
Q: In an unpaid overtime case, when your law firm successfully gets an exempt employee properly reclassified as non-exempt, can what the employee recovers from their employer in terms of unpaid overtime and other damages be substantial? They can be. The size of the recovery largely depends on how many hours of overtime the employee […]
Contract Defenses in the Corornavirus Era; Force Majeure
The government’s COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have placed unusual strains on contractual relationships. Employment, construction, landlord-tenant, and other contracts have been impacted, affecting most of our nation’s population. While unusual, such widespread, wholesale, strains on contractual relationships are not unprecedented. The law has dealt with these types of strains before, such as during times of war […]
Contract Disputes: Common Topics
Contract disputes typically concern one or more of the following topics: Was a contract formed?That is: (a) were there parties capable of contracting? (b) did they consent? (c) did their agreement have a lawful object? (d) was their agreement supported by consideration? The issue of consent is sometimes is phrased as whether the parties had […]
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