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...eans as the “'''[[MiFID]] Season'''”<ref>A joke that shall grow old, as we who are left grow old.</ref>) a reminder of the absolute limits on forgiveness But know this: champagne is very, very bad.

...by professional services firms that equates it to the time taken to yield those services. ...ollary is: ''the longer something takes, the more valuable it is''. No-one who has sat through the last season of ''Game of Thrones'' could possibly belie

...“didn’t quite achieve what it set out to” — but we note quietly that those who make this sort of claim — [[private practice]] [[legal eagles]] — and t ...y to challenge that analysis would be a competing creditor, and the person who would be arbitrating on it would be a liquidator, if an arrangement were no

...heories must ascend a grand epistemic staircase towards ''enlightenment''. Those theories that do not help us do that are diverting but, well, literally, '' But notice, too, how the idea of the “ultimate solution” — I know, right? — cleaves to rather [[monomyth]]ical ideas about the nature of li

...of living a healthy lifestyle — a “vitamin” — but anyway overlooking, you know, ''diagnosing and curing patients'' is the classic [[Legaltech startup conf ...appeal of Paracetamol: it is quick, generic, asks no great skill of those who prescribe it and, at first blush, it does the trick. A lot like [[legaltech

...nt, and payment of the USD7m, from the High Court. It came before Flaux J, who held that Marine Trade could not recover the USD5m by way of [[restitution]

For those that are not important, their owner will be someone in middle management. A ...so, friends: but that takes all the fun out of it for the middle manager. Who wants to be the one telling a computer what to do? Where is the fun in that

If by oversight, the focus group contains those imaginative but incautious enough to tell you how stupid the plan is, you c Those remaining ''after'' the [[Reduction in force|RIF]] will adjust their habits

...ly transcribed by longtime {{buchstein}} antagonist, [[Winthrop Grumman]], who took notes while the author mumbled incoherently from the depths of a malar

...y ''stupidity''. There is plenty of stupidity: consider how little ''you'' know, and extrapolate it. ''Everyone is bluffing''. ...e explained by stupidity, calling is ''still'' the best strategy. You will know soon enough if your counterparty is a rogue.

...here is another kind of ignorance, which counts as a business strategy for those whose enterprises depend on [[Scale|scaling]] the value of mutualised upfro ...rily expect you do do anything in return, there is logic to ignoring those who do ask, even fairly, for you to perform your end of the bargain.

[[Cash]], as you’ll know if you’ve had the pleasure of the [[JC]]’s [[Cash|frequent tedious pero ...ltiplayer online role-playing game]] of [[iterated prisoner’s dilemma]] we know as the free market would have blown up when the first rascal defected on th

One of the great pieces of advocacy ''about'' advocacy. Anyone who cares for the law should hoover this up. ...ich language. There are five synonyms for everything. Always one or two of those synonyms derive from the Germanic languages and they are ''short'' and ''pu

...ady-guarantors off the hook. This means it is a minefield for lawyers. You know what you find in mines: GOLD. So a guarantee is a place, like no other, whe ...uch as the right of subrogation), and there is a risk that a [[guarantor]] who assigns these rights might somehow mysteriously compromise a beneficiary’

...h; Mediterranean Europeans are culturally different from Alpine Europeans, those from the Balkans, Slavics, Scandinavians and so on. A market which might wo ...ely remodel London. Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren were among those who submitted plans, Wren’s influenced by Paris’ wide avenues hubbing from

...financial asset]]”s, which means certain financings would be out of scope. Those of instruments that don’t pay a cashflow or have a stated maturity as suc ...use, in America, there is rather hairy “[[risk retention rule]]” for those who would sponsor an “[[asset-backed security]]”. To qualify, the [[ABS]] n

...had to co-opt thousands of extra lawyers to work inside their businesses, who could keep the crops and fields of lawyers happy, throwing out fresh instru ...sts for the pleasure and enrichment of those saintly white-shoed attorneys who grace the serene frescoes overhead.

...oducts do, and sought wise counsel. In this case, a Mr [[Robin Potts QC]], who in 1997 opined that a credit derivative should not be characterised as an i

...comfort you might draw from what is being said is taken away by the person who is saying it. :'''Agent (''as [[agent]]'')''': Who?

*'''[[The noble believer]]''': The credible person who is duped and who unwittingly enables the fraud, The prison of belief. ...e is the person inside the organisation who can stand up to the visionary? Who is Lear’s Fool?