Like all relationships, relations between business partners can become strained, at times to the point of breaking. Disputes among business partners can and do arise for a variety of reasons, from lack of communication to outright fraud. Typical claims that are raised in partnership disputes include actions for accounting, breach of contract, negligence, fraud, and […]
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 […]
