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your conditions:
- 3x the normal rate ( you're worth it, they can afford it)
- all up front
- agreed upon ammount of hours. Use a ticketing system
When the hours are up, renew or part ways.
Or let them go with some scrub and rack up a bunch of technical debt -
add a mirror clause: contractor is obliged to keep the site as bug-free and secure as the contract is impenetrable from the viewpoint of securing contractor's rights and contidions and not providing loopholes for the client to exploit
=D
not sure if it would be valid or even effective, but could be highly amusing -
@paralegalseagul I fired another client (also experienced in law) over a retainer she wouldn't use and had refused to let me close out at end of year. Talk about indentured servitude!
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xsid34767yThe simple contract would be..
- Should give all the requirement in written before starting
- Any change in requirement, even a simple text rename, would cost 3x per change..
He's lawyer but we are DEVELOPER! -
@unfuckers-inc they’ll find a common law that gives them a loophole... or drag that ticketing system to put you at a halt.
I’ll never trust them, or companies that have a larger legal team than anything else.
Lawyer: "I heard you do websi..."
Me: "No."
Never, ever again will I do a website for anyone in the law profession. You can write the most airtight and amazing contract ever devised and they will find a way over, under, around, and through it to SCREW YOU UP THE ASS.
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i'm so done
lawyers