Law education company being sued?

A little birdie told me about a neat company skeleton that was hiding in our supply closet.

But before I begin, obviously if you read this blog regularly, you understand how irrational things happen quite frequently. Upper-management is IMPOSSIBLE to work with--from a designer or a joe-schmo point-of-view.

A few website redesigns ago, ICE hired a company to give their website a fresh new makeover. Most businesses do this on a annual basis. No big deal.

They signed a contract with a webdesigner and the web company got to work. Well, some people don't have the patience (or actually have a spine) that I do and they actually gave up after so many months of repeated conflicting messages from ICE. They handed over the files that they were working with and said they couldn't work with ICE.

Of course they wanted paid for their labors. You don't sign a contract with someone, work with them for so many months, then expect them to just eat all the expenses. They gave ICE all the work they had completed so far, but wasn't willing to stress out over their inability to make any cohesive decision that they wouldn't change their mind about a day later.

ICE refused to pay. They (being from the pre-web stoneage) didn't see anything tangible from the company's work, so the didn't pay. Besides, they're a big company and know big lawyers and educate big lawyers, why should they know anything about contract law?

And of course, the contractors sued because ICE violated the contract. It's kind of like having a marketing company hiring an advertising company to do their ad campaign. It's just embarassing when the news gets out. ICE was the laughing stock of their customers for many moons. I'm just sad I wasn't there to witness it first-hand.