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I'd like to but they don't really have the right people to contact on their site. I also figured I should break off contact in the case that I speak with a lawyer. From what I've learned in the past, the next person to contact them should be a lawyer.


> they don't really have the right people to contact on their site.

In situations like that, I usually send it by certified mail, return receipt requested, with an address like this:

  XYZ Corporation
  ATTENTION:  LEGAL DEPARTMENT
  [street address, etc.]
The "Attention: Legal Department" part, plus the certified mail, will normally get the attention of the mailroom people, who presumably will route the letter to where it needs to go.

Pro tip: Get a certified-mail card from the post office before you put the letter in the envelope. Write or print out the certified-mail serial number (from the card) on the letter itself. Keep a photocopy of the letter, with the certified-mail number on it, in your files. That way, you'll have evidence that you sent that letter with that certified-mail card.

(Long ago at a motion hearing, an opposing counsel told a judge that he never got a certain letter from a colleague of mine, for whom I was filling in at the hearing. The opposing counsel said, "Your Honor, my secretary signed the card, but it must have been for some other communication, because I never got this letter." My colleague hadn't put the certified-mail number on the letter, so I had no proof otherwise; the judge gave the opposing counsel the benefit of the doubt. A couple of years after that, the opposing counsel was disbarred, for something unrelated.)




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