Sure we changed wording on the contract after you signed it to favor us and not you. But who doesn't do that in Louisiana. It is still a legal and binding document because we want it to be one.
And lawyers wonder why people call them the scum of the earth when they do unethical things like this and claim "What is the problem? I know we altered the contract after signatures, but it is still legal and binds him." Especially after we changed the wording to reduce the payout if we fired him.
My Momma told me when I was in 7th grade she would be proud of me no matter what I did when I grew up as long as it was not a thief or a lawyer.
I asked "What is the difference?" trying to be funny.
She said "The lawyer just hadn't been caught yet." She was being serious because she fought with lawyers for 1 year each after my father and step-father died in car accidents. She hated lawyers.
Reading through to the end, they finally get around to describing the language changed. It was modified to state 'first day of...' or 'last day of...' months vs. the more generic "months" that were called out in the contract. Sounds pretty harmless, but given that part of the lawsuit involves the exact date he LSU it might actually matter.
Reading all the way through it, it doesn't seem the language changed affected things much. Although part of the lawsuit is whether Chavis left before Jan 31 or not, so if