Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff

Re:Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoug... by pc86 on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:46AM (#11311372)

This is a side note but if your lawyer charges $350/hr and bills you .25 or 1.0 hours for an email, they are a piece of shit and you should get a different lawyer.

At that rate you should absolutely not be charged in increments larger than .1 hour (6 min).

Our attorney (Associate) charges $145/hr and his boss (Partner) charges $285/hr and they both bill in increments of .1, and they typically won't bill every single email either.

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Re:Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoug... by dredmorbius on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:44PM (#11314366)

Read your lawyer's billing terms and understand them clearly. My information may differ from others, and it's not a field in which I'm an expert, though I've paid for a certain level of education, and not through an academic institution.

There may well be forums for discussing particulars of these terms and there may be value in negotiating those as well.

The larger point is that lawer time is expensive.

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Re:Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoug... by 27182818284 on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:39AM (#11312062)

For what it is worth, 6 minute emails were normal with my lawyer, but I often found it easier in the startup world of things just to give them a phone call to explain an issue rather than back and forth 6 minute emails

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