I work for my husband’s law firm, the forms only cover so much and documents like that have to be agreed to by both parties and they go back and forth with minute changes and, honestly, after awhile, you get so familiar with the ‘boilerplate’ that you tend to skim the documents looking for distinctions.
Proofreading legal documents is tiresome.
That said, it should have been caught. And the DOC should have verified with the judge (which is common) any probation while in jail (which is practically unheard of).
I hear you. Try having one case with over a million documents. Now that’s fun.
I see the lawyer up said “if properly awarded”. If it was just a clerical error; it was not properly awarded I would think.
You are not kidding. As I am sitting here watching this I have about 90 minutes to finish up a trial brief I've been working on for two weeks. I'm putting it together while reconstructing the language from 3 old stipulations, a settlement agreement, a judge's ruling, an order after hearing, and about 9 minute orders. Many of these documents were handwritten, some even in pencil (!!), and have scratch-outs, notes in the margins, etc. My eyes hurt SO BAD from cross checking these things and I am going blind doing it.
I can't WAIT to get this puppy off my desk!