Relatedly, the American Bar Association, suggests that attorneys serve various roles when working with clients. These roles include...

Auctioneers who contract with sellers to serve as their auctioneer to market, promote and secure the highest possible bid need to know...

We’ve learned a lot since that first case in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most notably, if you are an auctioneer there is absolutely no...

After my presentation, one of the Committee members asked me if there appeared to me to be a correlation between the lack of licensing...

We discussed if there were any other cases which would help or hurt her client’s claims and there really aren’t any of material nature. ...

https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/puffing-or-representing-while-bid-calling/ and as promised, here’s our more...

First of all, I’m not going after anyone as I’m not a party to any of the lawsuits where I’m asked to testify. Rather, either the...

Most cases in which we’ve been involved have been civil cases, where the standard of proof has been generally either a preponderance of...

If there is one single consistent theme running through the minds of plaintiffs in these cases, it might be: Auctioneers “running the...

UCC 2-328 extensively in classes around the United States, as well as in several articles contained within this blog. One such UCC 2-328...

I stay at many hotels throughout the year (although I have never stayed at the Black Bear Hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania.) In doing so,...

A bidder becomes the buyer and he refuses to pay for his purchase. A seller refuses to convey the property after a bidder becomes the...

I was asked just today in a seminar I was teaching what I thought of this phrase … what I thought it meant for auctioneers. I have to...

An auction event essentially invites bidders/buyers to participate by allowing them to contract with the auctioneer/seller. This contract...

By standing in our context here we mean, “Who does have a legitimate right to sue … an auctioneer?” In a somewhat recent discussion...

So just what is a missed bid? Is it a bid at all? Maybe not. First, some contract basics in regard to auctions: Bids are offers made...

He played the video game Fallout 4 for three weeks solid, resulting in loss of his friends, job and wife. His suit claims that the video...

In other words, what’s the applicable law or rule? What did the parties agree to in their contract? What is customary practice in...

Since opening an auction school, and especially since being asked to teach auctioneer continuing education, I have become intensely...

As well, we’ve written about the types of contracts auctioneers enter into, or are materially involved in supervising. Two such articles...