Month: January 2011

Indemnification: A Misunderstood Concept

[Updated 3:00 p.m. EST, January 10, 2011: In this post, I propose revised indemnification language. I’ll chew over whether still to offer as an option in Koncision’s confidentiality agreement the alternative language I offer below.] [Updated 9:50 a.m. EST January 7, 2011: The question of how the elements of a claim for indemnification relate to the elements of a claim … Read More

“Forever” in Language of Performance

In this recent post on indefinitely I considered the best way to express that a given obligation lasts forever. That brought to mind a different, and problematic, use of forever, namely in language of performance. Consider the following examples: The Executive, on behalf of the Executive and the Executive’s heirs, executors and assigns hereby releases and forever discharges the Company … Read More

Some Lexical Ambiguity to Start the New Year

Thanks to reader Steven Sholk, I learned about the recent Ninth Circuit opinion in Richey v. Metaxpert LLC. (Click here to go to a PDF copy.) Before Richey started working for the appellants, in 2007 he signed an employment contract in which he agreed that he wouldn’t compete with the appellant company “in the computer gaming business” for two years after … Read More