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Subject:Re: Creating a template with locked From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Cat Salm <catrose15 -at- hotmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:11:29 -0700
This is probably where your solution waits. If it's legal information, then
your legal group is the ultimate internal customer and SME and everybody
else is just a data source. Distill the disputes between the bickering
groups down to a multiple-choice list, sit down with the lawyers, let them
pick the wording they feel will best support their needs and then go back to
the bickering groups and tell the owners of the alternate wordings that
Legal has rejected their changes. Be sure your own boss is on board for
this.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Cat Salm <catrose15 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> It's legal information. It's not information we can change the wording on
> because if/when we get taken to court about it - our lawyers would have no
> room to stand if that language was not consistent to what is in our legal
> document that it comes from. And since they were the ones who wrote the
> original document - if they want it changed, totally up to them. But
> until that legal document gets changed - the text stays how it is.
>
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