Web Worker Daily

Last month’s SIAA OnDemand Conference saw the launch of RocketLawyer’s ‘web-based law office’ – a service that may prove to be a useful DIY legal utility for freelancers, web workers and startups.

RocketLawyer is essentially a library of legal forms  – covering the spectrum of business and corporate law, ranging from wills, pre-nups and leases to NDAs, employment contracts and incorporation agreements – that enables legal advice and execution to be delivered just as web applications enabled software to be delivered as a service. At its heart, the forms are simply a vehicle for connecting lawyers to clients, but the self-service element allows for a large part of the costs incurred to be mimised as lawyers are only required for the final review stage.

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I’ve been having some fantastic conference calls with several people who are all independent contractors and qualify as Web workers in one form or another. Out of the blue, one of them asked if we’d be offended to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) for a project she’s working on – and has already discussed with us pretty extensively. We’ve even given her our input on on the project.

Yes, of course, I’ll sign the NDA, I said. I’ll sign it because I want this person to feel comfortable discussing her project openly with all of us. I have no interest – and no capacity – to steal her idea. And I understand that you have to protect your assets.

This got me thinking more about NDAs in more depth. So I turned to a lawyer type to get some inside skinny on NDAs. Here’s my Q&A with Tate Stickles, Attorney at Law at Grossman Law Group in Miami.

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