IANAL.... A few bits and pieces of information to collect before you talk to the lawyer. This list is far from complete. Someone with more knowledge can add

IANAL.... A few bits and pieces of information to collect before you talk to the lawyer. This list is far from complete. Someone with more knowledge can add to this list of fix it, just a way to get your started. Do you have any correspondence with them? Does any of it show/indicate/imply that they "stole" you work. How were you employed? Do you have any sort of contract? Do you have a copy of it? Any follow up questions to the contract asked via email? How were you being paid? Was it by the hour, by the day, a lump sum for the two weeks? If it was by the hour, did you work on the website during the time you were working as a secretary? If it was by the day or lump sum, was there anything in a contract that specified the number of hours or the times you would be working each day? If so, did you work on the website during those hours? Did they ever ask you to work on the website? Why did you even do it? Were you just bored during work and decided to give it a shot? When they asked you to transfer it to their server, what did they say? Anything in email? Can you get your hands on the email (legally!)? Do you still have the server with your original work? Can you show that it predates the website that went up? How similar is it to the one on your server (aside from the missing signature)? Side note: I'd suggest not touching the work on your server till you talk to a lawyer. Any change on the timestamps might suggest foul play... even if you can show its not I would think its best not to do anything. Also, I would not suggest putting the answers to these questions up on HN. I don't know if it will hurt or not, but if you put stuff up in public, it might lead to further problems.