California Corporate & Securities Law

Attorneys often sign settlement agreements under the words "approved as to form" or "approved as to form and content". In signing the settlement agreement, an attorney may not expect to be bound by the settlement, but should she? That question was...

When a party is allowed to rescind a contract, the contract is quite literally torn up.  Thus, Section 1688 of the California Civil Code provides "A contract is extinguished by its rescission". If a contract is extinguished by rescission, it would...

Not too long ago, I wrote about the lawsuit filed in California challenging a confidentiality agreement allegedly entered into by President Donald Trump.  Clifford v. Trump, L.A. Super. Ct. Case No. BC 696568 (filed Mar. 6, 2018). In that post, I...

Old school lawyers are familiar with the notion that "the failure to reach a meeting of the minds on all material points prevents the formation of a contract even though the parties have orally agreed upon some of the terms, or have taken some...