Show HN: Your Expensive Lawyer Is Making Mistakes(findthefuckup.com)
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Show HN: Your Expensive Lawyer Is Making Mistakes
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Drop a contract or other legal document in and see how many mistakes there are. It will probably be eye-opening.
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I finally got all the nits picked out, except it seems to erroneously point out supposed section reference errors:
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Reference to 'Section 13.1.3' but there is no Section 13 in the document - this appears to be a copy-paste error from another lease form
Cross-reference to 'Section 2' is incorrect - the non-real property items are actually listed in paragraph 12, not in any 'Section 2'
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It seems to have trouble with the technical-writing numbering (e.g., 3.1.23) and insists on referring to sequential paragraph numbers even though the paragraphs aren't labeled and referenced that way. This numbering is done using the usual numbered list object but I don't remember if I had to configure a variant of it to do this. If you need I'll anonymize the document and send it, as long as you promise not to make too much fun of it (I was a party to the contract so I can get away with having drafted or substantively edited it despite not being an attorney, according to some guy on the internet; govern yourself accordingly or whatever it is you people say these days)
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Reference to 'Section 13.1.3' but there is no Section 13 in the document - this appears to be a copy-paste error from another lease form
Cross-reference to 'Section 2' is incorrect - the non-real property items are actually listed in paragraph 12, not in any 'Section 2'
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It seems to have trouble with the technical-writing numbering (e.g., 3.1.23) and insists on referring to sequential paragraph numbers even though the paragraphs aren't labeled and referenced that way. This numbering is done using the usual numbered list object but I don't remember if I had to configure a variant of it to do this. If you need I'll anonymize the document and send it, as long as you promise not to make too much fun of it (I was a party to the contract so I can get away with having drafted or substantively edited it despite not being an attorney, according to some guy on the internet; govern yourself accordingly or whatever it is you people say these days)
Wait till they find out the expensive lawyer isn't writing those at all and it's at best a junior associate or a paralegal.
Or some…template.
good point