{"id":7225,"date":"2025-05-22T12:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:51:20","slug":"legal-intelligencer-reading-between-the-lines-implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-reading-between-the-lines-implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Reading Between the Lines: Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the May 22, 2025 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang writes, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2025\/05\/22\/reading-between-the-lines-implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing\/\">Reading Between the Lines: Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is not in boldface. It does not appear in the indemnity clause. And it is rarely the lead count in a complaint. But the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing arises from a duty that is embedded in every contract, and a breach of the implied covenant claim can be a powerful tool in litigation. Too often, litigators make the mistake of tacking on a breach of implied covenant as a boilerplate claim or abandoning it in response to a motion to dismiss. Properly framed, a breach of the covenant claim is not just filler, but a remedy in cases where the contract is silent, ambiguous, or grants the opposing party discretion exercised for bad-faith advantage. In complex business disputes, especially those involving strategic behavior that may evade a literal breach, a well-pleaded covenant claim may be the best\u2014or only\u2014path forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-reading-between-the-lines-implied-covenant-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing\/#more-7225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the May 22, 2025 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang writes, &#8220;Reading Between the Lines: Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing.&#8221; It is not in boldface. It does not appear in the indemnity clause. And it is rarely the lead count in a complaint. 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