Description
Electronic contracts bring a unique set of risk, compliance, and litigation issues to business transactions. Watch this 60-minute on-demand video, which will cover the fundamentals, legal trends, and recent developments in binding electronic contracts and valid electronic signatures, including:
• Essential elements of electronic contracts
• Requirements for a valid electronic signature
• ESIGN, UETA and electronic transactions
• Smart contracts: Are they smart and are they contracts?
• Implications of UCC for electronic contracts
• What about blockchain based contracts?
• Identify and resolve the authentication and admissibility issues often faced in dealing with e-contracts
• Issues involving the current work from home environment
• Pending work on revising the UCC to address some of these issues
If you are licensed in New York, this content is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced New York attorneys. Although, this content is appropriate for all New York attorneys, newly admitted attorneys cannot earn CLE credit for the completion of the course when presented via on-demand.