Download This PaperInfinite Combinations: Whether the Duty of Competency Requires Lawyers to Include Choice of Law Clauses in Contracts They Draft for Their Clients
23 Pages Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Abstract
This article analyzes whether lawyers must include choice of law provisions in agreements they draft for their clients. It analyzes the costs and benefits of such a rule, and concludes that there ought to be no per se ethical or malpractice rule requiring lawyers to do so, but that under some circumstances a competent lawyer must include such provisions.
Keywords: legal ethics, legal malpractice, choice of law, contract drafting
JEL Classification: K10, K12
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Hricik, David C., Infinite Combinations: Whether the Duty of Competency Requires Lawyers to Include Choice of Law Clauses in Contracts They Draft for Their Clients. Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution, Vol. 12, p. 241, Winter 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=920162
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