Covid-19 – The benefits of carrying out a legal health check of your key contracts

Benjamin Franklin famously said “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”. In these uncertain times, with contractual relationships coming under strain, spending time understanding your key dependencies and possible weaknesses in your key trading and supply contracts can be a worthwhile exercise.From our recent experience of conducting contract reviews for clients, here are …

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Why former in-house lawyers can make excellent external legal advisers

Historically, lawyers left law firms to pursue legal careers in industry and tended not to return to private practice. Possibly due to the inevitably flat structure of some in-house legal teams and the lifestyle benefits of being one’s own boss, I have noticed an increasing trend of in-house lawyers returning to the “dark side” and …

Negotiating Storage Terms – a Customer’s perspective

A brief and high level practical legal guide to negotiating storage contracts