As the title suggests, I'm a lawyer and good at what I do. Haven't got anything better to do, so AMA.
Very happy to assist startups and young businesses as well!
What are some lesser known Indian laws that are actually useful in day to day scenario ?
This is very very open ended, I could perhaps give you a lot of tips in general, but one useful thing to know would be, in Common Civil Law (basically civil law ie non criminal law) "jaisa chal raha hai, waisa chalne do" is sort of a legal principle, so if something has been allowed to go on for a set number of years (different time for different things) it has to be continue.
For example - If you've ever been to old Delhi, or in certain rural or old establishments, there are certain path ways that literally go right through the middle of private property. Today, the owner's of the private property can't shut down the pathways. Another example would be, say you've lived in your house for 20 years and your terrace has always been flooded with sunlight, now your neighbour can't suddenly decide to reconstruct his house or add another floor on top of the house in a way that prevents sunlight from falling on to your roof the same exact way. They're called easementary rights.
If you've lived in a property rent free for 12 years, you can't suddenly be asked to pay rent and can lay legal claim of ownership under Adverse Possession.
@JadeArgent Oh wow, I didn't know this
What kind of legal loopholes have you used in your web3 org?
That's confidential :3
Fine then, keep your secrets ;)
Another question: Do companies consult their lawyers before threatening people that they'll take legal action against them?
I have seen non-tech folks representing their orgs threatening to take legal action if X doesn't fix or implement a feature in a FOSS project ASAP. Sounds dumb right? We usually laugh it off but I'm curious what happens at the orgs end to say stuff like that.
Like are in-house legal teams an afterthought? Let's fuck around & find out, then consult legal if we land in trouble?
What is the common opinion of legal community on AI taking over their jobs? Drafting, Consultation and stuff Any decline in business?
I'm not sure what my fellow lawyers would say about this, but I'd say it's the same as graduating from looking up cases and precedent in huge books to Googling case laws. Did it lead to a decline in the number of researchers?
I don't think AI is a threat to the legal community at all. There are a lot of subjective complexities that go into even the simplest of cases. For example, suppose Nestlé Chocolates was to ask AI what would be the best taxation strategy for them, AI would tell them to cook their books a certain way or avail rebates under schemes, but, I believe only a human would be able to come up with a strategy of filing taxes as a waffer biscuit, instead of a chocolate
90% of a lawyer's job is to understand the crux of the matter on their own, something which AI can't do, it relies on you to feed it all the information and trust me, no client can articulate every variable that well.
I think AI does make for a good paralegal, you can have simple basic drafts and it can be a good research tool, but that's it. If anything, if opens up more avenues for jobs! I'm technically a Web 3 lawyer!
I have this opinion about AI in general, they're not as advanced or as big a threat as we're thinking of them today
I don't think it'll be able to give you an adequate consultation or opinion on anything. Not just legal, but ask it's opinion on any subject you've got knowledge on, I don't think it'll give you an accurate solution
What’s a cost effective way to draft terms and conditions, refund policy, privacy policy etc for your startup? I’m currently YOLO’ing it with ChatGPT.
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It really depends on the kind of business and jurisdiction. If you have a good understanding of what you need to comply with and how your T&C should be, by all means, use Chat GPT, but if you don't, as I mentioned in another comment, an AI software can not tell you what kind of clauses you need to comply with for PDPL or GDPR, etc
T&C, especially refund policies can act as a HUGE safeguard for your company, especially in a non - Indian scenario, so... DM, bro! I'm VERY cost efficient 😂
Any legal law or worker or state employee code available , to not serve company 30 or 60 or 90 days notice period without payins & and now a days companies are deducting salary on day to day basis for work not done eg. - https://share.gvine.app/fJFCSi2yvPwHPz6a9
Toxic Remote Policy
On 4th para you may find content of salary deduction, any law's around that?
No law around that
No one can force you to serve notice periods and payins is something that really depends the language of your employment contract and the behaviour of your company. Most of such clauses have been held to be invalid in the past (including non competes etc) The most a company can do is ask you to pay or work up to what they've spent on you (basically fulfill your training cost)
No law about tracking softwares either, the guy can take the issue to court
Sorry , missed out some points, like tag of absconding and not getting release/experience letter if notice period not served, only way i have know of is health emergency in this situation. Thanks for replying.
