San Jose Contract Attorneys & Lawyers
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Grant Maynard
Sanjiv Dhawan
David Case
Adam Binder
Gene Rhough
Chad Starkey
Helen Quinn
Fiona Kaufman
Yi Qiao
Marc Ernaga
San Jose Contract Lawyers
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The San Jose contract attorneys & lawyers on UpCounsel are dedicated to helping businesses save time, money, and peace of mind with contract drafting and review, negotiations, litigation support, discovery, commercial business transactions, and more.
Our independent contract attorneys are available on-demand to provide contract legal services for businesses or to support your in-house general counsel to help lighten the load for transactional matters or litigation support.
Although the work of the San Jose contract attorneys found on UpCounsel often varies. They are highly experienced in legal contract activities such as commercial contract negotiations, document review in response to document subpoenas, request for production of documents, legal research, draft legal briefs, along with providing a full range of other contract legal services to businesses of any size.
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