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Perhaps you should read up on what "legal advice" means. https://www.findlaw.com/hirealawyer/do-you-need-a-lawyer/what-is-legal-advice.html https://www.findlaw.
by uxp8u61q 3y ago
Perhaps you should read up on what "legal advice" means. https://www.findlaw.com/hirealawyer/do-you-need-a-lawyer/what-is-legal-advice.html https://www.findlaw.com/hirealawyer/do-you-need-a-lawyer/wha... https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/48016/are-the-abbreviations-ianal-and-tinla-legally-valid-substitutes-for-their-fu https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/48016/are-the-abbrev...
> Legal advice requires:
> Education, knowledge, and experience in areas of the law
> The ability and experience to apply that knowledge to specific fact patterns
> An understanding of how the application of the law affects the client's legal rights
> Practical expertise in writing legal documents or other documents to support the client's position
> State or federal licenses that allow legal representation in court
Whether you write "this is not legal advice" or not has absolutely no bearing on whether it actually is legal advice or not. The phrase is used by actual lawyers when they don't want to mislead the general public about thinking that the legal information they provide is legal advice. Non-lawyers use it to feel fancy and sophisticated.
- scubbo 3y agoTIL, thank you! Still, though - the original statement wasn't false, it _wasn't_ legal advice, and the clarification did make that clear in such a way that a reader couldn't be confused into thinking that it was reliable. So - it wasn't a _useless_ thing to write, as the original commenter implied, even if it doesn't have legal weight as I mistakenly thought.
- eviks 3y agoNice goal post shifting, though you're still mistaken in how low you assess the intelligence of the readers (and even real "legal advice" can be unreliable, so you're a bit confused here as well)