Worldwide: Contracts and Commercial Law

As a business attorney who has spent over a decade helping companies navigate their most complex legal challenges, I've seen firsthand how the right approach to commercial contracts can make or break a business relationship.

When a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol called "Compound" distributed $90 million in COMP tokens to users due to a smart contract bug in September 2021, the crypto community faced an unprecedented question: who was legally responsible for an algorithmic error that no human directly caused?

While external cyber threats make headlines, the reality is that your biggest risk often comes from within. For North Carolina businesses, from tech startups in Durham to manufacturers...

The manufacture of pharmaceutical and biologic products requires an enormous amount of funding and logistics in order to ramp up and maintain production.

As the frequency and cost of responding to cyberattacks has escalated, federal and state regulators have imposed increased regulations and disclosure requirements for cyber incidents.

The enforceability of non-compete agreements remains an active issue in New York courts, and a recent Queens County Commercial Division case...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) obligates about half a trillion dollars a year to private contractors for everything from high-end weapons and data systems to basic goods and services like fuel, shipping, food...

A California federal court has allowed privacy claims to proceed against Rack Room Shoes based on its use of embedded tracking tools on its website—signaling that companies may face liability...

The rise of President Trumps' tariffs in 2025 has brought uncertainty to the profitability of product sales and has thrown a wrench in previously stable supply relationships.