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As an ever-increasing amount of contract negotiation and execution is done online, new legal issues have arisen from such transactions. Consider the following scenario: You are a general/prime contractor. You have a subcontractor’s electronic signature on an arbitration agreement. When a dispute arises with the subcontractor, you raise the arbitration agreement and attempt to submit the dispute to arbitration. However, the subcontractor says that it never signed, reviewed, or has even seen the...
By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP