Things I have learned at my all day seminar:

[Pheidippides]

1. Reading contracts before signing is a good idea.
2. Courts will read the contract to figure out what the contract means.
2a. This is true in Britain too.
3. Well explosions are bad.
4. America effing rules!

I feel guilty for getting CLE credit for this.

[UtahDan]

1. Reading contracts before signing is a good idea.
2. Courts will read the contract to figure out what the contract means.
2a. This is true in Britain too.
3. Well explosions are bad.
4. America effing rules!

I feel guilty for getting CLE credit for this.

That you are at an all day CLE in October tells me that you and I have the same approach to to CLEs: wait until the month they are due then look around for one or two that go all day.

[Indy Coug]

That's better than my 7702/7702A tax seminar in Washington DC where it amounted to nothing more than a Q&A session where the IRS would respond to every question with "The Service hasn't provided guidance on that topic yet."

[Pheidippides]

That you are at an all day CLE in October tells me that you and I have the same approach to to CLEs: wait until the month they are due then look around for one or two that go all day.

Lol, actually this one was recommended for work as it was supposed to be directly relevant to my practice (I don't need any more CLE credit for two years). Nobody told me it was relevant on a remedial level.

[thesaint258]

1. Reading contracts before signing is a good idea.
2. Courts will read the contract to figure out what the contract means.
2a. This is true in Britain too.
3. Well explosions are bad.
4. America effing rules!

I feel guilty for getting CLE credit for this.

I am always amazed at the number of business that won't 1) read the contract before signing or 2) hire a lawyer to read it for them. It's simply astounding.

[UtahDan]

I am always amazed at the number of business that won't 1) read the contract before signing or 2) hire a lawyer to read it for them. It's simply astounding.

Or stranger still have a contract drafted and not follow it or really know what it says.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Those all seem valuable, except the Britain one.

[falafel]

I am always amazed at the number of business that won't 1) read the contract before signing or 2) hire a lawyer to read it for them. It's simply astounding.

Or 3) have a lawyer draft the contract for them. We had a huuuuuge case that could have been resolved for very little if the company had not tried to take an old contract and retrofit it to a new non-analogous situation. Instead it generated over $2M in legal fees for our firm.

[UtahDan]

Or 3) have a lawyer draft the contract for them. We had a huuuuuge case that could have been resolved for very little if the company had not tried to take an old contract and retrofit it to a new non-analogous situation. Instead it generated over $2M in legal fees.

Lol. But this is what lots of lawyers do.

[falafel]

Lol. But this is what lots of lawyers do.

Exactly. Leave it to the experts.

[Pheidippides]

Just learned that people in Price, UT suck. Not kidding.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Just learned that people in Price, UT suck. Not kidding.

You didn't need trip to a seminar to find that out. I would have told you the reasons why for free.

My ADR6300 is having unauthorized sleepovers.

[thesaint258]

Or 3) have a lawyer draft the contract for them. We had a huuuuuge case that could have been resolved for very little if the company had not tried to take an old contract and retrofit it to a new non-analogous situation. Instead it generated over $2M in legal fees for our firm.

Darn. That's terrible. I sometimes think lawyers are like mechanics--they look like they're fixing something, but really they're just breaking something else so you have to go back.

[falafel]

Darn. That's terrible. I sometimes think lawyers are like mechanics--they look like they're fixing something, but really they're just breaking something else so you have to go back.

That's a horrible thing to say about mechanics.

[Moliere]

1. Reading contracts before signing is a good idea.
2. Courts will read the contract to figure out what the contract means.
2a. This is true in Britain too.
3. Well explosions are bad.
4. America effing rules!

I feel guilty for getting CLE credit for this.

#3 is only bad if you are in industry, otherwise it's like printing money to a legal firm.