True confessions: has anyone ever signed their client’s name to a document (in a transactional setting - I know zero about litigation), particularly where they’ve just signed a bunch of stuff remotely and you’re too embarrassed to tell them you’ve missed a document? Or because you’re under a crunch and don’t have time to go back to them for it? Not talking about anything other than say a manager’s certificate or other corporate authority doc.

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DO NOT DO THIS! Please for your own sake and that of your future. Better to feel the pressure or lashing from the partner or client than to commit forgery

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I would get consent first. Wouldn't do it otherwise.

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If you do this, put a slash after the name with your initials. In the age of docusign, it’s not a good idea.

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Has anyone ever done that? Sure. Where are they? If the client found out and had an issue, at a minimum probably fired. Just send them an email and say you have an additional document for them to sign. It’s not even a big deal. Never ever ever ever ever sign something for your client without express written unequivocal consent.

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No because that’s unethical.

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I’m not entirely sure I need to join the very strong chorus of “no” that hit me as I opened this thread but in case lending another voice to this helps...
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Dude don’t. Just don’t. As the litigator who has to present the witness who has never seen the document in question, please do not do this.

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No but I could see myself doing that lol

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Do DocuSign or if logistics are an issue you could also offer up, via email, to conform (with their permission) their signature and append on X document and have them reply with yes. And then save to the files.

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We have clients that we keep their signature on file. But we always send them the sig pages and confirm that we can apply their signatures.

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Lol this is funny..but no, don’t do this.

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Friend’s father was disbarred for doing so as a witness to a will. Got his license back 20+ years later.

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Absolutely not. Ask for the missing sig. Use Docusign if necessary.

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Would probably never become an issue. But what if? Not worth the problems it could cause

I have a classmate that worked in BIGLAW in the early 1990s and claimed closings were like editing the high school newspaper, with signatures copied, cut and pasted into documents as needed. But, he told a lot of tall tales so he might have been making it up.

Now, it would not seem very hard to get another signature electronically so you should be able to avoid this problem.

A lot of documents need original, wet signatures so the electronic thing doesn’t always work. I wish it did.

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