LEGAL INSIGHTS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNET LAW & ONLINE BUSINESS

It’s past the debate stage: the Internet was a business game-changer. Advancements in technology have forever altered the way we communicate and consume. Some companies and industries have adjusted to keep up with the 21st century technology model; others have fallen by the wayside. And as e-commerce rose, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers experienced the pinch they put on hundreds of mom-and-pop stores when they waltzed into town decades earlier.
Accustomed to being the big dogs, corporations like Wal-Mart and Barnes and Noble didn’t take kindly to suffering sales. After all, slow sales meant country club executives couldn’t collect multi-million dollar [...]

For most people, two things come to mind when the word contracts is mentioned:  binding and boring.  It’s true, spending 18 hours sifting through a double sided 50 page document is not as exciting as say, doing a trial.  It’s still important, and by making sure your contracts are properly reviewed and ironclad you can avoid some of the headaches later on.  Drafting a contract is not a cookie cutter process, and its not something to take lightly.  Many of the problems I see are the result of people who have drafted their own contracts.  A lot of headaches could [...]