Or the legal advice you're bothering with doesn't want you to have heart failure, or to fire them for the bill they ran up with outside counsel, when you find out what it cost to get the dedicated attention to your questions. A couple of hours of going over a model the lawyers found somewhere else maybe isn't too horrible at $400 an hour, but the time investment to either throw a specialist at it or make sure a not-quite-specialist is current on all issues affecting the industry, think through all the issues presented by your particular circumstances, write up a custom TOS, and then go over it with you and revise in light of your comments -- well that same $400 starts piling up into something that looks really nasty.
A lot of the time, at least in my experience, the lawyers would love to be bothered by your questions. It's what makes the law fun and interesting, when it is fun and interesting. They just don't want you to kill them.
Your almost-landlord, however, sounds like he was treating the law as a species of magical incantation. Wave a few pages around, say something in Latin; isn't that how it's supposed to work? What could go wrong? And where did all these dancing mops come from??
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Date: 16 Oct 2011 11:42 pm (UTC)A couple of hours of going over a model the lawyers found somewhere else maybe isn't too horrible at $400 an hour, but the time investment to either throw a specialist at it or make sure a not-quite-specialist is current on all issues affecting the industry, think through all the issues presented by your particular circumstances, write up a custom TOS, and then go over it with you and revise in light of your comments -- well that same $400 starts piling up into something that looks really nasty.
A lot of the time, at least in my experience, the lawyers would love to be bothered by your questions. It's what makes the law fun and interesting, when it is fun and interesting. They just don't want you to kill them.
Your almost-landlord, however, sounds like he was treating the law as a species of magical incantation. Wave a few pages around, say something in Latin; isn't that how it's supposed to work? What could go wrong? And where did all these dancing mops come from??