In their Commercial Division Update, George Bundy Smith and Thomas J. Hall write: As the New York Court of Appeals has directed, where clauses in a contract appear in conflict, "every attempt should ...

Discover how exculpatory clauses relieve contract liability, their practical use cases, and the limits of their enforceability in agreements.

Take advantage of guard clauses in C# to eliminate unnecessary nested constructs and branches and enhance the readability and maintainability of your application’s code. We always strive to write ...

Kim Porter began her career as a writer and an editor focusing on personal finance in 2010. Since then, her work has been published everywhere from Forbes Advisor to U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, ...

“The subtle choice of adverbs such as ‘whereby,’ ‘wherein,’ and ‘to’ holds the power to shape the fate of patents, determining their validity, patentability, and scope.” Patent drafting relies on the ...

1. Relative clauses are “embedded” grammatical structures, contained inside other grammatical structures. 2. Relative clauses play a central role in English discourse. 3. Relative clause knowledge is ...