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Is self-deprecating credentialism in line with the spirit of stack exchange?
There is a recurrent meme of legal matters being ostensibly too important to entrust to the advice of “anonymous people on the internet”. Yet many of these people may or may not be elite legal minds ...
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Policy for questions that clearly ask for specific legal advice
Questions that clearly ask for specific legal advice are off-topic for Law Stack Exchange.
This is to help protect users:
Those asking, from loss due to following incomplete advice, or advice from ...
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Shouldn't we rewrite questions asking for legal advice?
We receive very many questions that are in fact requests for legal advice, contrary to policy, and they are closed only sporadically (primarily in egregious cases). Here is a recent example, where a ...
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What is meant by "That's not how Stack Exchange works. Ask your lawyer"?
I don't want more downvotes. I want to clarify a comment I saw:
That's not how Stack Exchange works. Ask your lawyer.
Does this feel a tad uncongenial or unsociable to anyone else?
Can't we say this ...
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Dale M: Stop deleting answers which are not yours
Yesterday a user submitted a question regarding his draft of a contract. I was able to post an answer before the post could accumulate five VTC. There was only one VTC and the post was closed by a ...
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Should this moderator have answered this question requesting for specific legal advice?
This question unequivocally asked for legal advice.
Rather than deleting the question or improving it, this answer, providing advice as to liability and advice as to the law in the jurisdiction, was ...
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Law is scheduled for an election next week, August 12. In ...
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Should questions be allowed to be asked in first person?
It has been debated on this site what does and doesn't constitute "legal advice", most users work off of the argument that answers on LSE are not legally considered "Legal advice".
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How will we discourage people asking for, or giving, legal advice in Law?
Proposal: Law
This question is a copy of this question.
Even in the proposal phase, Law seems to be attracting questions of the form "Is it legal for me to...", "How can I..." and so forth.
There ...
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