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If I have difficulty getting a written agreement, I send a brief (my memorandum of what I think we've agreed) by email and follow-up with a phone call asking if
by chalst 13y ago
If I have difficulty getting a written agreement, I send a brief (my memorandum of what I think we've agreed) by email and follow-up with a phone call asking if that is what we've agreed. I can then immediately summarise the phone call in an email message that forwards the brief together with something like "great to hear that's OK, I'll be starting this afternoon", or some such.
Not that I have had to put this to the legal test, but there is then this sort of written documentation, accessible to both parties, of what has been agreed and when. Having everything in an email folder is easier for me than keeping a log book.
- larrys 13y agoAgree and I actually do the same thing. Follow up with an email summarizing the conversation and key points. Get a reply from the person acknowledging. Not bullet proof but definitely a leg to stand on. As far as "legal test" things rarely make it to court (even with contracts). At the point that's happened you've already lost. They are normally settled before that for anything of a small nature. Anything larger (and it's hard to define small but I know it when I see it) needs a contract.