The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), with its social distancing and remote work protocols, has brought renewed focus on the execution of transactional documentation without the traditional ...

With the digitization of everyday life, the importance of paper is decreasing and that of electronic documents is increasing. Even in the real estate industry, many matters are already being dealt ...

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As technology pervades all aspects of business life, business leaders, customers, and employees increasingly expect to be able to execute signatures on agreements, documents and elsewhere with the ...

Article 1 This Law is enacted in order to standardize acts of electronic signature, validate the legal effect of electronic signature, and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of the parties ...

The E-SIGN Act defines an electronic signature, which is legally binding, as an "electronic sound, symbol or process, attached to or logically associated with a record, and executed and adopted by a ...

In the waning days of 2018, District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo invoked a literary allusion to provide the year's most entertaining summary of the legal status of electronic signatures: Judicial ...

In 1990, a national organization known as the Uniform Laws Commission published a new uniform statute entitled the “Uniform Electronic Transactions Act” (UETA), and New Hampshire enacted the UETA in ...

This article deals primarily with digital signature (DS) and the law connected therewith. At the outset it is to be made clear that all the aspects of the law and all the provisions contained in ...