+1 David
2011/8/12 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> > 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 > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
