Not Legal Advice, but...

Between watching an ongoing lawsuit connected to work and a rather large misunderstanding about an upcoming system upgrade, I have some thoughts...


Read (and understand) the damn contract!

With this upgrade issue, we've had something blindside us because someone did not read and understand what was signed. The contract has a vendor hosting part of the systems and our company hosting other parts when everyone I've talked to expected them to host it all. Big difference there in some cases.

If a contract says you'll pay your part with a 1999 five dollar bill, that's what you do. Doing anything different weakens your argument if there's a dispute later, even if you gave the other party stuff worth ten times as much.

On the other hand, if you act like a contract is valid for over a year, you may be on shaky ground arguing it was never valid to begin with.

Maybe define how a contract can be cancelled and what happens if it is rather than leaving all that vague.


If you work for a company... well, you work for that company.

Begin assigned to someone in the company does not typically change where your paycheck comes from. Stuff you produce as an employee generally belongs to the company, not you, barring a legal agreement otherwise. If you're producing something on behalf of a client of the company and your employment ends, you generally do not have legal right to walk away with that product-in-progress to complete on your own. Doing this sort of thing can get you embroiled in a lawsuit.


You may not want to put your faith in a charismatic salesperson-like manager over your employer's CEO. 

I suppose that could work out in some circumstances, but some wariness of that winning smile may be warranted.


Lawsuits can take a long frickin' time.

That also costs a lot of money. Attorneys don't come cheap as they spend hours in research and writing. And I've seen a contract dispute run over two years now.


Don't annoy the judge of your case.

Deliberately dragging things out and half-assing responses is not going to win points with a judge. Sure, they are there to enforce law rather than play favorites, but wasting time and missing deadlines is a good way to lose any case that isn't absolutely clear cut (and maybe some that are, on technical grounds).

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