Re: "Prior Inventions" on employment contract

[Dan <dbcemid@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan, in my experience, a lawyer will always make a first attempt to
claim everything and give nothing.  Culture as it concerns you and me
usually strives to seek a balance of benefits for both sides, but I
wouldn't include most lawyers in that broad stroke.  Anyway, the very
nature of lawyers is that they represent one side only, in this case,
the lawyer who wrote the contract represents my employer.  Perhaps I am
the first one to have ever made a stink about this.

Now that the lawyer hath passeth on the law engraved in stone, it will
take going all/most of the way up the corporate ladder to get past
people who will say "can't change it - you have to sign it as is", and
it's a pretty tall corporate ladder, and I may not even get that far.

In the end, it may not even be worth it to hire a lawyer to *possibly*
gain me some benefit over the next few months while I remain in their
employ.  Make that "it most likely will not..."

--- "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@RELATIONAL-DATA.COM> wrote:
> > From: "Dan" <dbcemid@yahoo.com>
> > Nathan, I can't even get my employer to modify just one
> > word of this contract.  Let alone the two of us working
> > together to create one.
>
> Dan,
>
> The only way to know for sure is for you to write "your" contract,
> have them
> review it, and let you know if they have a problem with it.  You may
> find to
> your pleasant surprise that your employer sees some benefit in having
> something that is actually an "agreement" between two parties.  Your
> employer may even think your wording is better than theirs.
>
> In our culture there is a strong sentiment that agreements between
> parties
> should be balanced, not just one sided.
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
> www.relational-data.com

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