Renting an apartment or even a house is such a common facet of modern life, it’s often completely forgotten that a lease is a form of contract.  Once you sign your name to a lease agreement, you take on certain responsibilities, as does your new landlord.  While the balance of power between a landlord and […]

When buying and selling property, most people assume that once you sign a contract to buy or sell, it’s more or less a done deal.  Unfortunately as too many people already know, many real estate deals that seemed perfectly rock-solid can go sour, often unexpectedly and often causing real harm to one of the parties. […]

It’s a general piece of common wisdom that decisions rendered by a legally-empowered arbitrator are absolute and absolutely binding.  The entire point of a binding arbitration clause, after all, is that it is binding.  If the decisions of arbitrators were easily overturned in the courts, it would render the entire process moot. In general, the […]