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Money Talks: Boilerplate Land Mines

Mitu Gulati explains how the pervasive use of boilerplate contracts is creating a legal crisis.

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In this Money Talks: UVA law professor Mitu Gulati joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to explain how an overreliance on boilerplate language in contracts—that apparently never gets updated or even read—is leaving all of us vulnerable to legal traps.

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A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers.

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