Offer. Agreement. Acceptance. Every lawyer can recite the basic elements of a contract and knows that there must be a “meeting of the minds” to form a binding agreement. But when most of us went to law school, you couldn’t create an enforceable contract by texting back a series of happy face, money bag and champagne bottle emojis. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Technology has softened the rigid formality of negotiating, forming, enforcing and signing contracts over the last 15 years. In this CLE course, attorney Aaron Cronan will explore some of the most important legal, practical and business implications of technology’s impact on forming a binding contract. He will mainly discuss legally enforceable electronic signatures, E-Signature legislation, the Statute of Frauds & email signatures and browserwrap & clickwrap agreements. In addition, Aaron will breakdown case examples and case law, provide examples of valid & invalid electronic signatures, analyze the UETA & ESIGN statutes, discuss Terms of Use and highlight the pros and cons of digital vs. paper signatures.
Aaron Cronan is a business and contract attorney based in Portland, Oregon. During his seventeen years of practice, he has watched the legal industry transform from dictating letters to tape and not even having a computer on his desk, to handling all aspects of the practice in cloud-based software.