Every first year law student in the U.S. takes a course on the Law of Contracts. It’s a rite of passage where lawyers-to-be learn all about things like consideration and legally-enforceable promises.

Small businesses work with contracts every day. A company can have written contracts in place with its landlord, its vendors and its customers. Some of those contracts might contain vague provisions ...

Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Depending on who you ask, the real “bad old days” at the Supreme Court were ...