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trackitt,
Have you considered the legal aspect of it?
If a lawyer gives his/her opinion, the lawyer is expected to be responsible for his/her words, especially that we are going to pay for it. Now what if the lawyer gives a wrong advice to a question. Who do we sue? Trackitt or the attorney?
Not giving you a hard time, but you will see this happening one of these days when the new feature comes online.
Thanks for pointing that out. We have engaged a lawyer to review the site and create the terms of use and disclaimers.
Still, nobody can prevent a user from suing us or the lawyers. However, the chances of that person winning the case are almost zero, because the user would have used the "Ask a Lawyer" site with the full knowledge that he/she is using the site to obtain legal information, not legal advice. There are standard terms of use that every user will have to accept, and the acceptance will be a pre-condition to asking a question. When a user explicitly accepts the terms of use on a site, he is legally bound by it. So suing us or the lawyer will just waste everybody's time.
"Ask a Lawyer" is not a new concept. There are many such sites already existing, and they all have the same terms of use and disclaimers on the site. |
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