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 It is not the customerʼs business. It is ''lawyerʼs ''business''.''
+====Reader feedback ====
+This seems to have struck a chord. With readers. {{plainlink|https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmoorhead|Professor Moorhead}} recommends Gulati and Scott’s ''{{plainlink|https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo14365624.html|The Three and a Half Minute Transaction}}'' for similar anecdotes about associates with no idea of the provenance or meaning of apparently vital, inviolate terms. This has been a feature of JCʼs solitary inhouse crusade:
+{{quote |''SCENE: A room in the [[legal department]]. Filled with reforming zeal, JC encounters a bizzare term in a standard form. He enquires of the responsible lawyer, an uninquisitive veteran of ten or more years:
+{{script|JC}}: What does this do?<br>
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: Donʼt know.<br>
+{{script|JC}}: What does it even mean?<br>
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: Donʼt know.<br>
+{{script|JC}}: Can we take it out?<br>
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: [''horrified''] Absolutely not. [[Chip]] put that in.<br>
+{{script|JC}}: Who is [[Chip]]?<br>
+{{script|Legal eagle}}: Donʼt know.
+''NARRATOR: Chip was the GC, three GCs ago. He left before the merger. Which happened in 1998.''
+Exeunt}}