Chapters 18 and 19 deal with Contracts in Writing and Third-Party Rights to Contracts.At the end of both chapters, you can find questions & problems to help you understand and apply the rules of law covered in the chapters.Choose one of the following questions and respond.

Q1.List the kinds of contracts that require a writing under the statute of frauds.

Q2. Potential expert witnesses made an oral agreement with a plaintiff's attorney to testify on behalf of the plaintiff for $60,000.However, after receiving the money, the witnesses backed out of the agreement and said they would not testify in court or pay back the money.The witnesses claimed that the plaintiff could not sue them because their oral contract was with the attorney and not the plaintiff.Yet the plaintiff claimed she could sue because she was a third-party beneficiary to the contract.The court made a landmark decision regarding expert witnesses and third-party beneficiary case law.What was the rationale for such a surprising decision? [Isbell v. Friedman, U.S. App. No. 11-2113. (4th Cir. 2012).]