I didn't have the guts to deal with all the possible legal problems that an exit relay could spawn, and no lawyers I could find could help me with that question

I didn't have the guts to deal with all the possible legal problems that an exit relay could spawn, and no lawyers I could find could help me with that question. I suggest you run a non-exit relay instead, like I did for almost a year (at home). About to put it up again, after 3 months offline, now that I got better hardware to do it. Didn't have any trouble from my ISP, which was Tim, but I think that the biggest reason for that is that they are new in the business and they are trying to make things as painless as possible. It was a heavy traffic relay, I was limiting it to 4gb per day up/down bandwidth, which is quite alot, and never heard any complaints from Tim.