In December 2014, the California Court of Appeal held an employment arbitration agreement was unenforceable because the employer did not properly authenticate the employee's electronic signature -- raising some concerns about the enforceability of real estate contracts with electronic signatures.  The most widely used real estate forms in California can be signed digitally using Digital Ink® or DocuSign®.  However, each of these systems has an audit trail which can be used for authentication purposes. ... Read more