Welcome

I am enjoying my YouTube channel and slowly starting to get stuff uploaded. I just uploaded a brief webinar on the subject of Soteria (CISGIL) v IBM and you can find it on YouTube here.

“Stephens on Contractual Indemnities” is now available: published in 2021 by Law Brief Publishing and available on Amazon it is already getting a good deal of attention. There is nothing on the market which explains to lawyers in such a clear way exactly what an indemnity is (and is not) and this book is the first to set out the practice points for those drafting or litigating them. You can get the training course here.

I now provide all my services remotely: I am trained in Zoom (my preferred platform) and am happy to have “meetings” that way or using other platforms, or I can provide webinar versions of all my training courses and also have considerable experience in conducting remote mediations, so there is no interruption to service. In fact, a good thing just got better!

About my business: the Law Office of Richard Stephens (LORS) is a boutique IT law practice and provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services, including arbitration, mediation and adjudication. LORS consists of Richard Stephens together with his Senior Consultant, Oscar Rowlands.

While a “boutique”, LORS counts among its clients some of the largest companies in the world as well as a wide range of SME’s all of whom value our specialist advice across a range of IT Law areas. We also link to other professionals, so can provide a complete service even for large or complex transactions. You can find out more about it here.

One of Richard’s strengths is his ability to provide training in his various specialisations – from basic training provided for non-lawyers right through to his highly regarded training for lawyers. You can find out more about it here.

On the dispute resolution side, Richard Stephens also works as mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator in commercial cases, especially those with some sort of technology or communications aspect. In one or other of these capacities, Richard has acted in cases large and small. You can find out more about it here.

We hope you find it all useful – feel free to let us know what you think, or if you have any comments on the material we have posted here!

UPDATES ON IT AND COMMERCIAL LAW

Quantum meruit – what do you get paid for working without a contract

22 September 2022

Suppliers can often get drawn into working without a contract or ‘at risk’ as it is sometimes called. But what if no contract ever gets agreed? Can the supplier get paid anyway? If so, how much? This webinar looks at some recent case-law which illustrates that getting paid for work performed without a contract is by no means guaranteed.

Leaky boilerplate: how boilerplate clauses are there to cause problems

13 April 2022

Boilerplate are those little harmless looking clauses normally to be found at the end of contracts. They seem harmless enough because many lawyers put them in without thinking too carefully about them but I look at a number of these clauses and talk about the potentially harmful effects they can have when it comes to a dispute.

How to prepare for a mediation

15 February 2024

It’s one of those questions I get asked all the time: “my client has got a mediation in the diary in a week’s time: what should we be doing?” Well – quite a lot, is the straight answer. Here are some ideas.

Weeding out a knotty problem – the fallout from Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil

7 December 2023

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Churchill has been widely anticipated: with a stellar line up of Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, Carr LJ, the Lady Chief Justice and Birss LJ, and no fewer than seven intervenors, up for decision was the hotly contested question of whether a court could effectively compel a party to undertake ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution – such as mediation). What does it all mean?

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