IT project meets contract law: what you should do after termination

Even in times of the corona crisis, the emotions of contracting parties can rock up objectively. This also applies to the following case: Due to an allegedly disrespectful utterance of an employed programmer towards an end customer, the main client of an IT company terminated the long-term cooperation without notice with immediate effect.

The declared extraordinary termination would have affected a complex subcontractor contract with the IT specialist at various insurance companies as end customers. From the IT company’s perspective, however, there was a pure misunderstanding. She therefore commissioned the Hamburg law firm Dr. Becker with the representation of her extrajudicial interests in order to enforce either compensation or continued employment.

By rejecting the client’s one-sided declarations of intent, which the lawyer also declared, the law firm succeeded in ensuring that no legally effective termination of the contractual relationship between the parties was brought about. On the one hand, there was no reason for termination. On the other hand, the ordinary termination declared purely in the alternative could not lead to the termination of the project contract due to the lack of important prerequisites.