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...n risk''. It’s a free country. (Now, we say, “its own dime”: note, though, how common it is for an agent to ask its customer to foot the bill: it gets pai ...for the agent to sue its lawyers''. That’s what it paid the blighters for: so they, and that juicy [[professional indemnity insurance]] policy they never

...a war going on. The battlefield’s in the mind, and the prize is the soul. So be careful.” {{drop|W|e take it}} as not needing detailed argument that we are amidst — a long way through — a generational stampede towards ''the

...ng complete agreement among their operatives about the issues (a function, we suppose, of the mechanical obedience that LPO businesses drum into their pa You read that right: experienced lawyers were ''least'' likely to agree on what was important in a basic contract.

...d loans''. Hotly justifying this stance side-tracked the original article, so JC “[[Let’s take it offline|took things offline]]” and started a who ...who extracts excruciating covenants, takes mortgages, sharpens knives and so on, and a ''borrower'' whose mortal soul is traduced, suffers repeated indi

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...he Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind}} — {{author|Dan Davies}}, 2024.</div>}}}}{{quote Lest thee with surety know aught else —<br>

...mptions when solving problems (the “[[Duncker candle problem]]”), and then what sorts of incentives work best for solving those kinds of problems (the “[ ...th a rather good book on the topic: {{br|Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}}.

{{drop|F|rom our first}} law lectures, we imbibed the fundamental objective of a liberal modern legal system, above a This is a matter of basic [[jurisprudence]]: we hear it, we think, “oh, yes; well, of course,” and nod along as our professor conti

“I must negotiate this [[NDA]], because ''this is what I do''. [[It is in my nature]].” {{drop|T|he hobbity fellowship}} resisted the impulses to which we tragic agents of the [[Tragedy of the commons|commons]] resort by habit: th

...e old ladies, welsh hoteliers and, apparently, tax dodgers make bad law]], so ''en garde''. ...unately, this kind of buccaneering plays no further part in the story, but we mention it to egg you on to keep reading.

...world businesses great and small, ''coped''. (It rather begs the question what good all those strategies, consultants, [[change manager]]s and [[BCM]] pro We adapted. We learned: working from home is pretty cool! [[Pyjamas]]! Zoom! Kids rushing

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it ...ense ''on its own terms''. It is not ''wrong'', so much as ''incoherent''. We are captives of language. “Truth” being a propositional property of a s

...ene-setter: everyone, once, stares at that gnomic title and thinks, “okay, what on earth is ''this'' all about?” That is the {{{{{1}}}|Preamble}}. There ...is known to all who love her as the [[1992 ISDA Master Agreement]]. These we call the “[[Modern ISDAs]]”.

...the mean time I am constantly beset by daemons, plagues, dread terrors and so on, fantastical threnodies all on the single worry that ''you never pay me ...dismal your contractors may be, suing them will be worse, and “self-help” isn’t really an option. If it was, no-one would hire builders in the first place.

You asked me what’s my pleasure:<br> {{Drop|A|market, in the}} abstract, looks like what [[Nancy Cartwright]] calls a “[[nomological machine]]”. A simplified ''

...her of that, or of the indolence of one not prepared to strike out and put what she has learned into practice — but still: it spoke to perseverance, dept The legal profession is to [[ChatGPT]], we hear, as poor old Chrissie Watkins was to Jaws.

BLACKADDER: Look, there’s no need to panic. Someone in the crew will know how to steer this thing. <br> CAPTAIN RUM: The crew, milord? ''What'' crew?<br>

...egos report}} to the board and, for reasons known only to the board,<ref>''What on Earth did they think they would achieve by releasing this report?'' It c We like to imagine the conversation went a little bit like this.<ref>''[[Discl

...cles of faith, and credentialisation process, all of which is encrusted in so much obscurant flummery that it is impossible for non-initiates to get near ...the cause — some trust and faith in the wisdom of elders and “[[positivism|what is laid down]]” — no community consensus can take root in the first pla

“What? Give that here.” The Precedent Commander scowled. It aggrieved him to se He tossed it over. “What do you make of this one then, lad?”