Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: legal matters Message-ID: <1038@uw-beaver> Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 06:00:06 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1038 Posted: Tue Jul 3 06:00:06 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jul-84 03:29:28 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 14 From: Jerry E. Pournelle 1. "Giving legal advice" is "illegal" if you are not a lawyer? I can understand that taking money for doing that can be prohibited, but how do you draft a law that makes it a crime to speak one's mind? I understand that lawyers have nothing but contempt for the First Ammendment (unless they can enrich themselves through it) but it does still exist. 2. I take it you wil sue if anyone else on this list "gives legal advice"? Free advice may often be worth less than you paid for it; but then, so is much of the "professional" legal advice, the difference being that one paid more for that...