Practice
When a business contract breaks down
When a supplier, customer or business partner stops keeping a deal, the contract is only where the case starts.
We represent companies and owners on both sides: the business owed money or performance, and the business accused of not delivering it. Most of these cases settle once both sides see the documents laid out plainly. The ones that don't, we try.
Cases like
Unpaid invoices and supply agreements
Asset and business purchase disputes
Non-compete and non-solicitation claims
Distributor and franchise terminations
Fraud in how a deal was sold
What a contract case usually turns on
Before we argue about what the contract means, we find out what both sides did.
The paper trail
Purchase orders, emails and texts often say more about the deal than the signed agreement does.
The notice clauses
Many contracts set deadlines for objecting or curing a default. Missing one can cost the claim.
The real damages
What the breach cost you, proven with your own books, not a number picked for the complaint.
Sample matters
Contract matters like these
Settled for $185,000
Unpaid supply contract
For a food distributor owed for eleven months of deliveries, two weeks before trial.
Claim dismissed
Non-compete suit against a sales manager
For the employee: the court found the restriction broader than the business needed.
Paid in full
Equipment lease default
For a leasing company, after a demand letter and one round of motions.
These are sample matters written for this template, not results the firm has obtained. Past results don't guarantee or predict a similar outcome; every case turns on its own facts and law.
Asked often about contract fights
The other side says the contract doesn't say what we thought. Do we still have a case?
Often, yes. Courts look at the whole agreement and sometimes at how both sides behaved under it. Bring the contract and the emails around it, and we'll tell you how a judge is likely to read it.
Can we keep working with a customer while we sue them?
Sometimes, and it can be the right call. We'll talk through what continuing the relationship does to the claim before anything is filed.
Is there a deadline to sue on a contract?
Yes. The law sets one, and many contracts shorten it or require written notice first. That's why we ask for the contract at the first call.
A deal gone wrong and a contract in hand?
Send it to us. A partner will read it and the letters around it, and call you back with what we see.