Here at the Law Office of Vincent Miletti, Esq. and the home of the #UnusuallyMotivated movement, we take pride as a resilient and dependable legal services firm, providing such services in both a traditional and online, web-based environment. With mastered specialization in areas such as Employment and Labor Law, Intellectual Property (IP) (trademark, copyright, patent), Entertainment Law, and e-Commerce (Supply Chain, Distribution, Fulfillment, Standard Legal & Regulatory), we provide a range of legal services including, but not limited to traditional legal representation (litigation, mediation, arbitration, opinion letters, and advisory), non-litigated business legal representation and legal counsel, and unique, online legal services such as smart forms, mobile training, and legal marketing and development.
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As the authoritative force in Employment Law, we are thrilled to continue creating content-filled videos that cover diverse areas of Labor Law to educate and deliver in a sense that only Miletti Law® can. In this regard, this blog introduces you to yet another training video titled “Creating Long Term Value & Risk Mitigation With Ghostwriting.” By way of backdrop, if you have worked with Miletti Law®, you may have noted that we have always tried to provide non-traditional legal services not seen every other day, which is a unique aspect of the services we provide as a law firm. Normally, most people opt for a “slip & fall” or an “ambulance chaser” kind of attorney who would robotically keep on trolling, suing, and collecting every breadcrumb to fight through an ongoing litigious process. In the traditional realm of such legal services, the attorney on the defense side falls purely on the hourly rate, while the one on the plaintiff’s side turns into some hybrid of a retainer and hourly with some contingency at hand.
As a law firm, Miletti Law® strives to provide alternative approaches to legal services that are not standard for more attorneys. To this end, Mr. Vinny Esq., the law firm’s legal champion, is keen on providing other services such as profuse SEO (search engine optimization), marketing for attorneys, and legal branding as a way of optimizing the value clients get. In this manner, we provide clients with a legal structure and framework that enables them to achieve much more than seeking the services of a lawyer because the law can do some things, such as protecting a brand from infringement, on its own without following an aggressive and forceful process.
Among those alternative legal services, Mr. Vinny Esq. is also adamantly into ghostwriting for business. Most business owners can agree with us that every single business needs an in-house counsel, but the highest percentage cannot afford one because, for one, such a counsel would generally cost $300,000 a year. This boils down to between $300 and $350 an hour based on current data and statistics available on public portals. To that end, we offer alternatives to that at cheaper rates and through a soft structure and model (this is proprietary, so we reserve the right not to disclose it publicly), but which is comfortable to our clients.
In this regard, we are of the opinion that every manager, CEO, board of directors, or anyone in an executive position tasked with running a business needs to have an attorney as a ghostwriter. Based on experience, we have found that businesses would enjoy countless benefits from having an attorney as a ghostwriter for them. In the process, you can be able to spearhead many imminent problems that may arise in the future and address them on the back end through the services of a seasoned attorney who would have already “ghostwritten” some particular issue in anticipation of such problems in the future.
In the simplest sense, ghostwriting involves the process of drafting and creating a piece of work, such as a document, under the name of another person (usually the client). A ghostwriter prepares the piece on the client’s behalf, where the client would have the byline on the written piece. With the right legal expertise, an attorney is capable of writing and speaking to convey the directed interest(s) of the client, but in an organized and legally informed manner.
To understand this, let us have a scenario. You are an employer who wishes to fire a deadbeat employee but is unsure about how to do it and what to expect after the dismissal. This is the point at which you put a call through to an attorney, explain the issue at hand, provide necessary details and documents, and gives reasons behind the move, such as the need to protect business interest(s) and not pay this person severance down the road because they are a high-income earner and something like that. Once you email the attorney what you wish the client to know about the dismissal, the attorney takes up the task of repackaging and modeling your message into an organized and legally informed letter to be sent to the employee. As a legal expert, the attorney knows and is able to anticipate the issues that would arise down the road, which should be incorporated into the letter. The ghostwriter is also capable of using language that would stimulate and provoke a response from the employee, but for which a contingency plan would be put in place beforehand.
Usually, ghostwriting involves drafting articles, emails, and contract negotiations, not to mention hiring and dismissal letters, as in the example provided above. However, the employer should have, on the inside, a trusted individual who understands the legal risks involved, the nature of the business, and what would be at stake following such a move. Assume that as a manager, you are used to writing to a board of directors directly but then start using a ghostwriter to do the same. You are right to question whether, after using a ghostwriter’s services, the board would recognize your voice, and understand your perspective in regards to what you needed to communicate. The answer is yes, and the process does not involve deception. It is just that an expert in ghostwriting and a great ghostwriter knows perfectly well how to tune your message such that, despite using legal terminologies and quoting statutes, it would absolutely and unreservedly reflect how you would have written in your style, but with a few legal patches to set things straight in the face of the law. Well, it is agreeable that such might seem a bit complex for a layperson to understand, but an expert would make it smooth and friendly for everyone to understand. Funny, Vinny frequently uses the term “indemnification” in such writing and jokes about no one knowing what it means – well, probably except me, the legal writer and publisher.
Businesses require many forms of writing, including the ones stated above, such as articles, emails, contract negotiations, and hiring or dismissal letters. The big picture is that business owners are most assuredly destined to create long-term value and mitigate risks for their businesses through ghostwriting services. That goes without saying that we are just a call away if you need ghostwriting services!
Please, feel free to view our video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHVIEsGzMM. As we continue hammering on new stuff daily, stay tuned for more educative videos, inspiring training, & legal advice. In the interim, if there are any questions or comments, please let us know at the Contact Us page!
Always rising above the bar,
Isaac T.,
Legal Writer & Author.