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A lawyer could hugely undercut most of his/her peers on this sort of thing and still make a nice amount of money. Annoyingly, when lawyers do these standard do
by karzeem 17y ago
A lawyer could hugely undercut most of his/her peers on this sort of thing and still make a nice amount of money. Annoyingly, when lawyers do these standard documents, they're basically functioning as secretaries who happen to charge hundreds of dollars an hour. You're paying them to bear responsibility for the legal effectiveness of the document, not for the document itself. But that's really annoying on occasions when the documents are a whisker away from being form letters.
- sid 17y agoYes thats correct, i get the same feeling as well when working with lawyers and accounts (specially when i was incorporating). Howevers sometimes i cant help but think that as software engineers and developers we kind of do the same thing to the people we consult for. Yes some of the stuff we do might be complicated but many times our work is pretty easy and we still charge 100 - 150 dollars and hour. Anyway thanks for these documents, expecially the compensation documents. Even though im from australia i can get an idea of how to arrange documents to be used here.
- micks56 17y agoWhat is the going rate for this work? You probably are paying for the document itself. Suing a lawyer for malpractice is difficult (high standard to prove and with the American legal system, you pay your own lawyer fees to bring/defend a case).