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A [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer’s]] stock-in-trade, her currency, the oxygen that gives her daily routine meaning and her role physical substance. For what is she if not her comments? | |||
If you ask a lawyer for [[comments]], she will give you some, whether your draft needed them or not. This is a founding crux of the [[anal paradox]]. For a mark-up proves you have read an agreement, considered its content, and justified your fee. | ''[[Ego sum id quod dico]]'' - ''[[Si quaeris causidicum loqui, locutus est tibi]]'' | ||
If you ask a lawyer for [[comments]], she will give you some, whether your draft needed them or not. This is a founding crux of the [[anal paradox]]. For a mark-up proves you have read an agreement, considered its content, and justified your fee. It's in her nature. It is what she does. | |||
No text is immune from adjustment, and if your only objective is to show you've read it, slipping in a harmless [[for the avoidance of doubt]], or a [[without limitation]] or two, is the least professionally invasive way of achieving that. | No text is immune from adjustment, and if your only objective is to show you've read it, slipping in a harmless [[for the avoidance of doubt]], or a [[without limitation]] or two, is the least professionally invasive way of achieving that. | ||
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