Contract

Indemnity, Exculpatory and Hold Harmless

Cropped screenshot of title from the trailer for the film Double Indemnity (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Has this ever happened to you? You are getting ready to race go-karts, rent a truck, scuba dive, or lease a storage unit and the owner hands you a document to sign. Maybe you read over it, maybe you just […]

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Preventative Medicine

Once I had to explain to one of my kids why they had to brush their teeth every night. I told them I knew it was a hassle and took up ten minutes that they could use to play Angry Birds, but it was important because they could get cavities and we’d have to go […]

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Good TV

I’ve watched a lot of lawyer shows over the years. The first I remember was “The Paper Chase” which was actually about law school. After watching that I decided I didn’t want to be a lawyer just from the shear amount of stress it appeared that law students have. (Of course I did eventually go […]

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Hoarders & Homeowner’s Associations

One popular reality show today is A&E's "Hoarders. "The show details the problems of pathological hoarding or disposophobia. The individuals acquire possessions and fail to discard them even when the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary and impair mobility and interfere with basic functions of life. The show scratches a morbid curiosity and probably makes […]

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