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What are “Best Efforts”?

Picture of a reservoir, symbolizing a case about a contractual obligation to use "best efforts"

Contracts sometimes require that a party use its “best efforts” to carry out its obligations. (This is in contrast to, for example, “commercially reasonable efforts”.) Last month, in California Pines Property Owners Assn. v. Pedotti, the California Court of Appeal for the Third District provided a definition of “best efforts”. (more…)