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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by iudqnolq on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:23PM (#21787804)
> An out-of-the-box idea might be to find a paralegal on FIVERR and ask them to dig up resources to read up on.

Ideas are a picodollar a dozen. Why don't you try this one and tell us how it works out? Or, at a minimum, find out if you could even theoretically hire a paralegal on Fiverr?

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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by naniwaduni on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:15AM (#21788742)
Seems like it'd be a pretty bad idea on the paralegal's part to take the gig.
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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by runninganyways on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:38AM (#21789680)
Why is that?
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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by jnwatson on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:46AM (#21790039)
It is illegal in every US jurisdiction I’m aware of for a paralegal to give legal advice.

Attorneys have a legally enforced monopoly on legal advice because, well, they write the laws.

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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by iudqnolq on Saturday December 14, 2019 @01:41PM (#21791219)
And even if you found a paralegal willing to break the law, you'd either get an idiot who can't get a job anywhere or have to pay a lot more than $5
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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by dang on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:04PM (#21792984)
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? we ban accounts that do that, and eventually your main account as well.

If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful.

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