Common Contracts
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S T A T EOctober 11th, 2019
Agreement—Attorney Approval—Obligation on Attorney When an attorney signs his clients’ settlement agreement with a notation approving the agreement “as to form and content,” can he be personally bound by provisions in the agreement? In Monster Energy Co. v. Schechter, 7 Cal.5th 781 (2019), the Supreme Court answered “yes.” There, parties in a tort action entered into a settlement agreement that imposed confidentiality obligations on the parties and their attorneys. Plaintiffs’ attorney Schechter signed the agreement with a notation that he approved the agreement as to form and content. When Schechter and his firm were sued for, among other things, breach of the agreement’s confidentiality provisions, they brought an anti-SLAPP motion asserting the suit lacked minimal merit because they were not bound by the confidentiality provisions. The Supreme Court disagreed, holding an attorney’s signature on a document with a notation that it is approved as to form and content does not, as a matt
