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October 8, 2026 Eugene Park

Watch your words: How casual emails and texts can become binding contracts

A casual email thread or quick text exchange — could these end up in court as binding contracts?

In a Long Island Business News article, Counsel John Diffley shares key insights on how courts evaluate scattered digital communications to piece together enforceable agreements and why a typed email sign-off can function just like a signature.

Diffley details where courts draw the line between casual talk and enforceable commitments, as well as what businesses must state in everyday correspondence to keep negotiations from turning into unintended contracts.

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