k3am - your counsel should be sending it to her counsel directly. That’s wacky.
I was about to post this.
ETA: Although on reflection, we have a business partner that sometimes doesn't want to pay his attorney to review stuff. So it has happened that our lawyer has sent his lawyer something, and his lawyer won't get authorized to review it. In that case, though, the business partner does his own review and then acts on it. That may be why?
mustardseed2007- I always go back to the ethics rule that 1) you can’t contact a represented person, and 2) you can’t cause anyone to do something you can’t do. So in your situation, it’s an unrepresented person if they won’t pay counsel. But if you know they will forward it to counsel? Wacky, right? Signed, Ethics Nerd
waverly , so me being annoyed that it was over 24 hours and forwarded only because I asked her status on it is warranted, right???
mommyatty , when I do stuff on my side of the business, 1st turn of docs gets sent to them from me. If they loop in counsel, so do I. If they don't loop in counsel, I work with ours behind the scenes.
We are now approaching close of business, and as far as I know, no attorney has looked at it yet. I can't even get an ETA on when we can expect comments.. it's like trying to pull teeth with tweezers.
This document is running through another department of the company, and at this point, I want to call them complete idiots. Not only will they not communicate with my client's counsel, but they won't even let me forward comments on the document directly to their counsel. And the person in between? Is.. UGH.
I mean I work in an entirely different business and for non essential email sometimes it takes me 5 days. Think my boss sent me an article to read, but it is not pertaining to something happening immediately and he seems unconcerned on timeline.
But my H is in business, and they seem to expect answers in an hour.
24 hours during business days is what we tell members of the general public (and I have exceeded this when coming up with a solution for complex issues). Probably wouldn’t fly in legal/ banking industry trying to do deals.
waverly, in this case, based on the number of times we've followed up on it, you would think she knew it was a pressing matter.
In my early days, I was given the advice that at minimum, emails received before lunch get responded to by close of business. Emails received between lunch and the next day get responded to by lunch.
mustardseed2007 - I always go back to the ethics rule that 1) you can’t contact a represented person, and 2) you can’t cause anyone to do something you can’t do. So in your situation, it’s an unrepresented person if they won’t pay counsel. But if you know they will forward it to counsel? Wacky, right? Signed, Ethics Nerd
In our partners case, we always go with the assumption of he will engage counsel unless he tells us he isn't engaging them up front. I think that's the safest bet.
mommyatty, mustardseed2007.. how common is it for an attorney to not have access to versioning/redlining software??? This is an attorney working at a law firm, not in house counsel.
In other news, I am still banging my head against the same wall.
mommyatty, mustardseed2007.. how common is it for an attorney to not have access to versioning/redlining software??? This is an attorney working at a law firm, not in house counsel.
In other news, I am still banging my head against the same wall.
Not common unless it’s a very particular software that doesn’t talk to others. For goodness sake, Word can do that. But how common is it for attorneys not to know how to use it? Surprisingly common.