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If your lawyer thinks their templates and forms are some sort of secret sauce or trade secret, you might want to evaluate other options

More open source lawyering coming this week

If your lawyer thinks their templates and forms are some sort of secret sauce or trade secret, you might want to evaluate other options

More open source lawyering coming this week

https://flor.io/FOSSlaw

general counsel @ 1kx // co-founder @ thing3 // summoner @ hydra ventures

Glad to see you back here @larryflorio.eth!

Agree with the premise, but would caveat that *sometimes* clients do want to pay counsel to “lawyer things to death.” 🙃

But it always comes back to understanding what the client needs and wants, and finding a way to deliver effectively and efficiently as possible given the ask.

Totally agree. Adding to that, I think it’s also knowing when you DON’T need to deviate. 

Clients aren’t paying us to lawyer things to death. They’re paying to get a deal done with the risks either being mitigated or at least known & accepted

The forms themselves aren’t the secret sauce. Knowing what, when, and how to deviate from the forms is what lawyers (should) get paid for.

it matters because you're flexing making some agreements open source when that is a marketing play for the fund you work for

Not really sure how where I work is relevant?

And if you look again, there’s a few other things in that folder also, just not full provisions. 

There’s more context to them on the other app, but one is an anti-snipe contract provision to deal with things like the Libra/Hayden drama, and another is a side letter clause so if a company is reincorporates out of Delaware to a place like TX or NV, investors can keep the “fairness opinion” rights that they have under Delaware law that the other states don’t seem to have

you're working for a VC using this as a flex? 

also the only agreement I can see is a DAO contributor agreement?

wat

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