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I don't know how exactly, but perhaps we could have an open git repository-esque method for refining contracts. Right now, one law firm refines its own contract

by osrec 8y ago

I don't know how exactly, but perhaps we could have an open git repository-esque method for refining contracts. Right now, one law firm refines its own contracts over the lifetime of the firm. Why not democratise the entire process and make it open? Then lawyers can stop ripping people off for this sort of non-work and instead focus on actually providing legal counsel (which is what you truly should be paying a lawyer for).

pkilgore 8y ago
> Invoice > Task. By. Rate. > -------------- > Fix form. Paralegal $ 100 > Knowing what Lawyer. $ 4,900 > form to fix.
pkilgore 8y ago
Honest legal Invoice Task. By. Rate. ------------------------------------ Fix form. Paralegal $ 100 Knowing what Lawyer $ 3,900 form to fix. Accepting. Firm $ 1000 liability ------------------------------------ We already live in a world where reuse of forms save clients money. True disruption changes the obvious problem above: how do you replace the cost of professional judgement and trust? If you're an engineer today, you don't get paid poorly because Mongo and Postgres already exist. You get paid well if you know whether a document store or a RDS is the best fit for the systems problem at hand based on a careers worth of experience. As someone who has done both for a living, it's shocking how much overlap there is (overlap that I assume exists in among doctors, accountants, consultants).