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• The Letter of Intent: Why Business People Love 'Em and Lawyers Hate 'Em ( May 2003 )
  

  Letters of Intent ("LOI") , also known as Memoranda of Understanding and Memoranda of Agreement, are devices used to signal parties' agreement to the basic structure of serious negotiations to close a deal.

• Risk Management: Insurance and Bonds ( January 2003 )
  

  Companion chart for <a href='http://articles.corporate.findlaw.com/articles/file/00106/008580'>Risk Management for Construction Projects</a>.

• California Court Morphs Unenforceable "Agreement to Agree" into a "Contract to Negotiate an Agreement" ( September 2002 )
  

  In Copeland v. Baskin Robbins USA, et al., the court of appeal in Los Angeles recognized—apparently for the first time in California—a "contract to negotiate an agreement."

• Justice Department Updates Treatment of Contract Unit Prices Under FOIA ( August 2002 )
  

  Overview of guidelines used to process FOIA requests involving contract pricing information.

• I Thought We Had A Deal… ( December 2000 )
  

  This article discussed the reasons why parties should put the terms of a contract in writing rather than just relying on an oral promise when entering into a legally enforceable agreement.

• IT Contracts and the Law ( November 2000 )
  

  This alert summarizes the English Contracts Act which took effect in 1999 and allows third parites to enforce rights granted to them under the privity of contract doctrine.

• Hospital Payor Must Honor Reimbursement Agreement ( June 2000 )
  

  Court Rejects Claim that Abolition of the DRG System Voided "Stop Loss" Clause In 1991, Meadowlands Hospital ent.

• Court Denies CMO Investor's Claim Against Rating Agency ( April 2000 )
  

  The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently decided that an investor in securities was not an intended th.