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What's the best way to spend legal fees?

by James A. Burke · in General Discussion · 01/22/2005 (12:19 am) · 16 replies

Hi,
At AGDC we won the Hyne's lawyer's Pitching contest and won $4000 worth of legal fees. We have 12 months to spend it and well.... I don't know what to do with it! So what is the best way to spend it?
Thanks,
James Burke

#1
01/22/2005 (1:06 am)
Setup a final will, living will, LLC, corporation, close on a house, DBA, change your name, trademark, get a divorce, file a patent, prenuptial, living trust, copyright...etc..

Take care of all those pesky cost of life issues.
#2
01/22/2005 (1:19 am)
I'm 14, I don't think I need the will :P
#3
01/22/2005 (2:49 am)
Get a set of base contracts that you can reuse later.

I'm thinking things like:
* Mutual NDA
* One side NDA
* Contract between 2 partners in a project for e.g. a game project
* Contract for hiring in consultants into a project
* Software end user license agreement
etc

Things you will have to use later - given you do more game dev or just software in general. Make sure they are generic, so you can use it as a template
#4
01/22/2005 (3:38 am)
Thanks, they're fairly good ideas ;)
#5
01/22/2005 (4:38 am)
Find a lawyer friend, get him to 'cash' around $2000 for legal fees by doing 'work' for you. Get him to give you the money he 'earned'.

If you get found out then at least you've got $2000 legal fees left to defend yourself. :)

Joking btw. ;) I am in no way encouraging you to break the law, honestly. In-fact, forget my post ... no really, forget it! You didn't see me okay? I wasn't here.

- Melv.
#6
01/22/2005 (4:45 am)
Lol, that *could* work Melv
#7
01/22/2005 (4:56 am)
Don't forget, I wasn't here right? ;)

- Melv.
#8
01/22/2005 (5:02 am)
Of course ;-)
#9
01/22/2005 (5:04 am)
Hehehe @ Melv ;-)
#10
01/22/2005 (7:42 am)
Who wasn't here?
#11
01/22/2005 (7:46 am)
*turns light off - slips out of the window*

- Anon.
#12
01/22/2005 (12:17 pm)
Melv, are you contributing to the delinquency of a minor?? Shame, shame... :)
#13
01/22/2005 (12:27 pm)
Whoever it was - he left the building.
#14
01/22/2005 (12:28 pm)
*closes window and runs away*

- Anon.
#15
01/26/2005 (6:26 am)
Here's an idea... Sue Hyne's lawyers for setting up a pitching contest where the prize on offer could be used to temp a minor into delinquency by a (now anon.) game maker.
#16
01/26/2005 (6:37 am)
Hmmm.... that could work. lol ;-)