Abstract:

Mediation can help in an attorney-client fee dispute because it opens the channels of communication. I have provided the example of a client who pays a non-refundable retainer to a lawyer in return for services. The lawyer ignores all the client's calls, does not render the services, an...   MORE>>

Introduction

Arbitration is the process by which a difference among parties as to their mutual legal rights is referred and determined with binding effect by the application of law by an arbitral tribunal instead of a court. Arbitration “took its rise in the very infancy of Society” as a priv...   MORE>>

Courts strongly encourage the resolution of disputes by arbitration. Arbitration is a cost-effective, more efficient, and quicker alternative to traditional litigation. To advance these ends, judicial review of arbitration awards is severely limited. As one court noted, if “it were otherwise, the ...   MORE>>

THIS is an elegantly written work by a young Egyptian lawyer on the subject of long-term contracts in international business. The extension of simple contract analysis to the situation of long term contracts will produce gross distortions and there is a need to provide rules that take into account t...   MORE>>

This article examines the development of contract law in the People’s Republic of China, as well as the problems arising out of the present reform of the law. The writer takes the view that the better way to bring about the reform of the law is for the legislature to promulgate a unified contract ...   MORE>>

This article examines the difference between the Japanese practice of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits and those of other jurisdictions. The author demonstrates why Japanese practice tends to favour banks over beneficiaries, and why in certain circumstances, this is attractiv...   MORE>>

I. Introduction

Electronic signatures are a vital ingredient in the success of electronic commerce. Without them, it is questionable whether commerce can be effectively carried out on the Internet. While they have many uses in non-commercial transactions, it is their utility in the commerce arena...   MORE>>

In the past thirty years, the economic and legal systems in China have undergone momentous changes. In concomitance with economic developments, the contract law has experienced a process of gradual development from the three former contract laws in the 1980s to the unified contract law at the end of...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

In today’s competitive legal market, law firms must be willing to “put skin in the game” by utilizing creative alternative fee arrangements. Indeed, clients have become increasingly dissatisfied with traditional hourly fee arrangements and are now seeking more creative fee a...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

This article offers a practical resource for managing Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) litigation in light of the greatest wholesale revision to Article 2 since its inception. Specifically, this article identifies the threshold issues in UCC litigation, offers strategies for early mo...   MORE>>