If you are talking to a lawyer, trying to get a feel for whether or not you would like to retain them, should you be worried about them potentially stealing your business idea? If so, is an NDA necessary, and will a lawyer even consider signing, or is this whole issue taken care of by professional legal ethics?
[Of course, if a lawyer/firm started taking ideas they would quickly get a bad rep and it would probably damage their business more than they would gain from the idea. But just wondering anyways.]
I just read you blog entry about classifying things by their rank of importance. Top 10, 100, 1000. An effective way to look at things. Although in asking this question I wasn't giving in to a worry, merely curiousity. I think it is much harder to rank things by how fruitful the curiosity about them will be. For instance, because of my question, and your response, I read an interesting post and learned a little about an interesting, successful guy (you).
Yeah, random curiosity is definitely a good thing, or at least some amount of it is (like spending 20% of your time on completely random things). But during the other 80% of the time, we just need to move forward without getting blocked by unimportant details.
Do you know how much a lawyer has to lose if (s)he even says a word about confidential stuff he just heard from you?!
You should worry more about your mom/dad/brother/girlfriend/boyfriend/best friend saying something to someone than worry about a lawyer stealing anything.
My lawyer doesn't even allow anyone to look at his laptop's screen and he never mentions his other clients.
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You should worry more about your mom/dad/brother/girlfriend/boyfriend/best friend saying something to someone than worry about a lawyer stealing anything.
My lawyer doesn't even allow anyone to look at his laptop's screen and he never mentions his other clients.
Everyone has great ideas that they can't implement. That's why I learned to program in the first place.