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Were these things written into your contract? Mercy.
I worry about the idea of you drawing up legal
documents. It simply comes down to the fact that you
could be brought into legal proceedings if the
documents are brought into question.
It has never happened to me personally; however, one
of the writers on my team has testified on behalf of a
company that was sued. He came out of it okay, but no
tech writer should have to go through that.
--- anon <unknownidca -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my post
> about ethics and morals in documentation. It was a
> extremely interesting discussion.
>
> I have another, potentially more serious, situation
> on
> my hands and this time I need advice.
>
> I am being asked to write the drafts of my company's
> legal documents. These documents run the gamut from
> the innocuous 'terms and conditions' of product use,
> to more mission-critical sales contracts and
> consulting agreements.
>
> My managers have been quite blunt about they need me
> to write these documents: they can't (or won't)
> afford
> to spend thousands of dollars for lawyers to write
> these documents from scratch.
>
> All of my instincts are telling me that I shouldn't
> be
> writing the drafts of any legal documents. I have
> been
> reassured that a lawyer will review any document I
> write, but there is no guarantee that the documents
> will be reviewed by the company's legal counsel. In
> fact, I suspect that anything I write will be
> immediately put into use.
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