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6 posts tagged Contracts, newest first.
Non-competes are still governed state by state in 2026. The FTC ban was set aside by a federal court in 2024. Learn which states bar them, the reasonableness test, and what to do if you have one.
Generating a contract is the easy part. Understanding what the contract actually obligates you to do is the part most AI legal tools skip. Smart Legal Documents includes an inline clause explainer that translates each provision into plain English without requiring a separate session with a lawyer.
Most contracts cost you money in three predictable places: auto-renewal terms, one-way indemnification, and governing-law clauses tucked into the back pages. None of them are sneaky. They get glossed over because a typical vendor agreement is 14 pages long and the cost of a clause that fires once a year does not feel real until the year has passed. Here is the 90-second triage that catches the three clauses most likely to turn a routine contract into a five-figure problem.
Scope, payment, term, IP, confidentiality, liability, dispute resolution. The seven clauses that determine whether your service agreement is a contract or wallpaper.
You can negotiate a reasonable indemnification clause without an attorney on every contract. Six steps, scope, third-party limit, mutuality, mechanics, carve-outs, cap interaction, get you 90 percent of the way there.
Five years of pandemic-era appellate rulings sharpened force majeure doctrine. Foreseeability, specific enumeration, and the impossibility-vs-cost line all moved. Here is what your clause needs to say in 2026.