A lawyer is indispensable I think, and the fees sound reasonnable . +1 Charles. Le 12 août 2011 17:34, "Florian Effenberger" <flo...@documentfoundation.org> a écrit : > Hello, > > as many of you know, we're right before filing the application for > legally setting up the Foundation. > > For the process of filing, it is highly advisable to have a lawyer > assisting us and acting as official point of contact. Not only will some > legal topics come up, but also being represented by a lawyer greatly > helps in being perceived as serious entity by the authorities. > > Among the lawyer's tasks there will be the communication with the > authorities, acting on legal questions, and preparing the filing > documents in a way they fit the legal requirements. Unfortunately, > German law makes it very complicated for lawyers to act pro bono on > these kinds of things (which is different to e.g. the US), so we plan to > officially contract a lawyer to assist us. > > In order to have legal advice for the process, which might take a few > weeks, I'd like to ask the steering committee to approve a sum of > 3.000,- € in total. This is the sum one of our preferred lawyers has > mentioned to us, and given that several hours of work for professional > services have to be invested, I consider that amount very well spent. > > Depending on the lawyer and the services used, hourly rates of about > 50-150 € are fairly normal in Germany, and I expect the process to take > a few hours of time to be completed, especially given the "speciality" > with the membership we have come up with. > > Thoughts welcome. > > Florian > > -- > Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted >
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