(l-r) Andrew LeGrand, Trey Cox and Thomas Molloy, of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
With many companies and law firms implementing work-from-home policies to cope with and help contain COVID-19, the digital trend in the practice of law has only accelerated. Especially now, an increasing number of settlement and contract negotiations are occurring over email. Texas lawyers should be acutely aware of legal developments in our state applying the familiar themes of contract law—such as offer and acceptance—to this digital landscape.
The Texas Supreme Court recently examined when settlement negotiations by email can shade into a binding contract in Chalker Energy Partners III LLC v. Le Norman Operating LLC, No. 18-0352, at *1 (Tex. Feb. 28, 2020).
