It Ain't Over Til It's Over (and maybe it's not even over after that…): Unsettling Settlement Agreement

Today, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a decision reversing the District Court’s grant of summary judgment for a defendant who THOUGHT it had settled a dispute with a settlement agreement.  The Court of Appeals revisited the District Court’s reading of the settlement agreement and found that the District Court’s reading had been overbroad.

The Court of Appeals decision is timely.  On Tuesday, November 10, I will be presenting a two-hour webinar along with an extremely qualified panel (Heather Redmond, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP re: IP settlements, Shannon McDonough, Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A., re: settlements in the employment context, Elliott Olsen, Pritzker/Olsen, re: settlements in the personal injury context).

No one wins clients by touting one’s talents in drafting settlement agreements, but, on the other hand, plenty lose clients (and worse) when things go awry.  A poorly understood or poorly drafted Pierringer release, an unenforceable cooperation clause, what to do when your client wants to back out — in addition to critical insights into areas of specialized substantive law, these are some of the issues to be covered in the webinar.