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>Neither lawyers nor programmers are legally liable for such fuck-ups. Lawyers can be held liable if they do a horrible enough job. Likewise for programmers, a
by marcoperaza 9y ago
>Neither lawyers nor programmers are legally liable for such fuck-ups.
Lawyers can be held liable if they do a horrible enough job. Likewise for programmers, and there are a lot of people advocating for strict liability for software defects in commercial products/services.
- jacquesm 9y ago> Lawyers can be held liable if they do a horrible enough job. They can be but it rarely happens. The most likely outcome is that another lawyer (or even the same one) will send you another large bill to try to fix the problem. This too is roughly analogous to what happens in programming.