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Why are entrepreneurs often reluctant to hire an attorney to draft a contract?

Grant owes Mary $15,000. Mary’s daughter, Samantha, is graduating medical school and Mary wants to give her money for graduation which will help her rent and furnish her first apartment during residency. Mary decides to assign her rights to the money Grant owes her to Samantha. Mary tells Grant to pay Samantha the $15,000 owed and Mary tells Samantha that Grant will pay her the $15,000. Is this valid?

Fisher is hired to sell Anastasia’s business. While Fisher is looking for a buyer, the quality of the business and its operations starts going downhill. Anastasia later says, very publicly, that she would not even buy product from her own business. After hearing this, Fisher stops putting in effort to sell the business. If Anastasia were to sue Fisher for breach of duty, what would Fisher’s best argument be?

Leslie Brown and some of her fellow employees at ABC Labworks, a company in Enoch, Utah, think they want to form a union, but ABC does not want them to form one. Can they form a union?

The method a court uses to compensate an injured party is called a(n):

Louis, a three-year-old child, was seriously injured when he stuck a fork into an electrical outlet. His parents sued the restaurant where the incident occurred, claiming it should have had child protective guards on the outlets. Whether the restaurant is liable will be dependent upon whether:

An individual will not be liable in strict liability if they can establish that they exercised reasonable care.

Donald Trump proposes to Jill Biden but she says “No.” Over a glass of champagne, watching the sunset from the Mar-a-Lago Club patio, he verbally offers her the deed to his Trump Hotel in Las Vegas as a wedding gift if she accepts. After divorcing Melania and Joe, respectively, they are married by a terrific Elvis impersonator, who has a license to perform marriages in the State of Nevada, in a very, very classy wedding ceremony at the Graceland Wedding Chapel on the “Strip”, but then The Donald changes his mind and does not deliver the deed. He tells Jill, “you’re fired!”  The promise is enforceable.

Julie buys a microwave at David’s yard sale. The first time she uses it, a negligently manufactured power cord catches fire, and burns her condo down. Julie sues the microwave manufacturer and David alleging that the microwave was defective – what result?

Travis is unemployed and to make some extra money, he agrees to paint a mural in Amy’s office lobby for $23,000. A week before he is due to begin painting, Travis finds a new job and tells Amy he will not paint her lobby because he now no longer has time. Amy files a lawsuit against Travis immediately. What will be the outcome?