Author:
Nicholas and Filip
Proposal date:
2022-01-13
Summary:
Delegate discussions with lawyers to Filip and Nicholas until February 28, 2022. Filip and Nicholas will regularly communicate updates to the DAO through public meetings in the Discord, and bring the DAO’s questions back to the lawyers.
Risks:
Filip and Nicholas could fail to fully and transparently communicate information bi-directionally between the DAO and the lawyers.
Private discussions are a departure from the DAO’s typical entirely public work practices. Private conversations may lead to DAO members feeling alienated from the process and less involved in legal information acquisition. While all legal decisions concerning the DAO will still be made by the whole of the DAO through the typical governance process, the primary risk here is that legal advice from counsel be disregarded because DAO members feel less personal ownership over this information.
What are the changes being proposed?
Designate Filip and Nicholas as liaisons with legal counsel. By approving of this proposal, DAO members acknowledge that Filip and Nicholas may have private discussions with lawyers in the interest of researching how to shore up the DAOs legal compliance across a variety of domains.
Filip and Nicholas will summarize and communicate all relevant learnings from these conversations to the DAO through public meetings (Town Hall or Legal focus meetings). They will also communicate DAO members’ questions back to the legal counsel.
What is the goal of this proposal?
The goal of this proposal is to efficiently conduct legal research and present these research findings publicly to enable DAO members to make informed decisions as individuals and DAO members.
In the interest of making informed legal decisions as individuals and as a DAO, we propose delegating the responsibility of legal research to Filip and Nicholas. As legal research delegates, the DAO permits Filip and Nicholas to host public and private meetings with lawyers and subsets of the DAO membership to achieve clarity on the various legal areas of concern facing the DAO.
Filip and Nicholas will communicate their findings back to the DAO regularly through public channels such as Town Halls and Legal meetings. They will also make all possible efforts to communicate DAO members questions and concerns to the lawyers.
What is the expected impact of these changes?
With this mandate in hand, Filip and Nicholas will be given formal permission to host private meetings with lawyers as necessary.
What help might be needed from Juicebox DAO and its members?
To succeed in this research project, DAO members will need to cooperate with the research team and provide feedback each step of the way.
Sponsors:
Community members who agree to act as spokespeople for this proposal can add themselves here.