Our Tinley Park contract litigation attorneys provide you with a basic understanding of contract breach defenses, enhancing your understanding of the contracts you sign as well as your ability to identify the situations where an attorney consultation may be useful. The common defenses to breach of contract explained in this video are: Material breach by the other party, anticipatory repudiation, duress, unconscionability, mistake, fraud, undue influence, and impracticability. Some other considerations would be: loopholes, one-sided clauses, ambiguities, and modification.

In this video, our Cook County breach of contract attorneys explain that breaches of contract occur when one party does not perform according to the manner laid out in the contract, the time agreed upon in the contract, in a way that is only partially what was agreed upon, or completely different from what was agreed.

In this video, our Cook County breach of contract attorneys explain while it’s definitely best practice to ensure that written contracts include signatures by both parties involved, Illinois court rulings have found that contracts can still be valid if only one party has signed it. We will explain three of the most common reasons courts have ruled in favor of a contract being valid, even if it doesn’t include both signatures: parties have acted in a way that's consistent with the written agreement, failure to object the contract, and that an accepted contract will be treated as a whole.