Mutatis Mutandis Blog

 

After all changes and everything being equal (mutatis mutandis), we’re just blogging about legal issues (and some other issues of interest)…

Smart Documentation

If you’re running a small business, contracts are the foundation of your daily operations. Whether it’s agreements with suppliers, clients, employees, or partners, these documents define your rights and responsibilities. But what happens when something goes wrong? When deliverables aren’t completed as promised, deadlines are missed, or quality doesn’t meet expectations?
The answer often comes down to one critical factor: documentation. As a small business owner, your ability to prove what happened, when it happened, and how it happened can mean the difference between protecting your business interests and suffering significant losses.

Understanding Termination Rights

For small business owners, understanding how and when a contract can be terminated is just as important as knowing what obligations it creates. At J.Hill, PLLC, we’ve seen how well-crafted termination provisions can protect businesses from problematic relationships while poorly drafted clauses can trap them in unfavorable arrangements.

Hey Lawyer, Give The Computer Your Desk

Yup, the computers are coming for law jobs and everyone already knows it.  This is expected – even by the lawyers effected by this (potentially negative) change.  Here’s the dirty secret… at large law firms (think middling bulge bracket and bloated white shoe firms), a substantial portion of “the work,” is really just recycling garbage and finding out of place commas in twenty-page documents.   A priori, this is unhealthy for everyone, including, eventually, the law firm and lawyer.   Example: Confidentiality Agreements (NDAs) for years have been administered by lower level associates for the presumable gain of their clients.  Highly tailored and negotiated NDAs are the cottage industry of technology and investment companies and their lawyers.  These are the types of documents that can really be started-administered-completed by AI.   We will be writing more about the interface between the law and