Contracts

W. Cory Reiss

Casino Real: Minor earnest money bet raises stakes of real estate misdeals.

Going first is gambling. That’s why a legal question can linger in plain sight for years before someone decides to test it. The...

W. Cory Reiss

A plea against the fee: When your best argument is for ‘mercy,’ it may be too late.

A jury had hit three defendants with $65,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, and now their lawyer was asking a judge not to award...

W. Cory Reiss

For sale: three bedrooms, two baths, and the builder's wiggle room.

Third-party home buyer “warranties” for new homes may induce buyers to give up stronger legal rights to correct construction defects.

W. Cory Reiss

The “L” word your building contractor can’t resist has a catch.

The risk is that a homeowner fights at the peril of paying both the contractor’s fees and her own. But the threat may be double-edged.

W. Cory Reiss

Blinded by the light: How insurance carriers learn the virtue of good faith.

Where good faith disagreement ends and bad faith refusal to settle begins can be a very tricky line to identify.

W. Cory Reiss

The grass is always greener when it's artificial turf.

Just take a moment to marvel at the amounts spent by a well-heeled HOA to hold at bay the evils of artificial turf.

W. Cory Reiss

Nursing home case may defuse some contract landmines.

Arbitration agreements require parties to avoid court and take their dispute before a private panel or single arbitrator.