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They understand revision control because it is built into Word... But my previous lawyer would send the document to me and to my CFO, each of us would make chan
by idiopathic 17y ago
They understand revision control because it is built into Word... But my previous lawyer would send the document to me and to my CFO, each of us would make changes and I would talk to the lawyer on the phone. Soon there were three versions of the document, so there were threads going back and forth around "which is the latest document".
As for EchoSign, they authenticate that the person who signed the document must have at one point clicked through a link which went to their e-mail address. This is much better than the authentication of written signatures, i.e. that someone could scribble something on a piece of paper in the same way that you did it.
- newy 17y agoOutlook as revision control ftw. No seriously, lawyers must first get off the habit of marking up documents by hand. Everything else can come later.
- idiopathic 17y agoEr... do these lawyers still exist? Fortunately I never met one, and if I did, I could never afford their inefficiency. Every lawyer I ever worked with used Microsoft Word for all their documents.
- fatdog789 17y agoIt's easier to review documents by hand than it is on a screen, especially given the amount of reading involved.
- fatdog789 17y agoActually, the point of the written signature is that they can be witnessed easily, and it is easy (or at least easier) to detect forgeries, especially if you use nice (i.e., expensive) pens. With a wholly digital file, it's not. You have to trust a 3rd party. What happens if EchoSign goes out of business? Then you're fucked.