Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the best forum for asking questions of attorneys -- Jobs and Careers or Off Topic? Anyone had better or worse luck with their questions?

What attorney would spend billable time responding to random questions for free?

This entire site is about people giving advice. Most people enjoy sharing what they know. Why would attorneys be any different?

SAHMs don't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn how to parent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the best forum for asking questions of attorneys -- Jobs and Careers or Off Topic? Anyone had better or worse luck with their questions?

What attorney would spend billable time responding to random questions for free?

This entire site is about people giving advice. Most people enjoy sharing what they know. Why would attorneys be any different?

Because they get paid to give legal advice. Not exactly the same as recommending a brand of diapers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the best forum for asking questions of attorneys -- Jobs and Careers or Off Topic? Anyone had better or worse luck with their questions?

What attorney would spend billable time responding to random questions for free?

This entire site is about people giving advice. Most people enjoy sharing what they know. Why would attorneys be any different?

I think legal q's should go in existing sections. A forum for legal questions is too broad and might present legal issues.

Anonymous wrote:What's the best forum for asking questions of attorneys -- Jobs and Careers or Off Topic? Anyone had better or worse luck with their questions?

What attorney would spend billable time responding to random questions for free?

You need to pay me for legal advice.

Aw even a peppercorn could be a fee so too a promise made and completed in cyberspace. I promise to post "sharksharkshark" in off topic forum...

I don't think there is a way to get legit free legal advice anywhere but straight from the actual mouth of an attorney.

Sometimes I wonder if there should just be a whole "attorneys" section, since every other person on here seems to be an attorney!

There are an awful lot of them in the Explicit section. Many showing off their bits. Or bolts.

There are a lot of ethical issues to giving legal advice. I would not be comfortable as an attorney with a legal advice forum - either providing advice or seeing advice provided in such a context, anonymously, with the level of unrestrained nastiness here. It's one thing to comment or give a one-off on a post to someone in distress. It's quite another thing to hang out your shingle.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wonder if there should just be a whole "attorneys" section, since every other person on here seems to be an attorney!

I would love that.

2nd this.

If it is related to the profession, then jobs and careers. If the issue fits into a forum (family, real estate, relationships, etc) put it there. Otherwise, it goes into off topic.

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wonder if there should just be a whole "attorneys" section, since every other person on here seems to be an attorney!

I would love that.

Sometimes I wonder if there should just be a whole "attorneys" section, since every other person on here seems to be an attorney!

What's the best forum for asking questions of attorneys -- Jobs and Careers or Off Topic? Anyone had better or worse luck with their questions?