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Legal eagles have unique empowerment from the highest reaches of the great [[modernist]] machine.  
Legal eagles have unique empowerment from the highest reaches of the great [[modernist]] machine.  


Now, James Bond famously had a [[licence to kill]], but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that.  
Now, James Bond famously had a licence to kill, but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that.  


[[Eagle Squad]]’s power is more of a torture of the living. Whereas others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the poor benighted [[negotiator]]s who are, really, the brave footsoldiers of legal practice, however hotly the [[eaglery]] denies it — have meaningful commercial constraints on the perversity they can bring to their task: there are measurements of their performance, and abstrusity doesn’t count: their [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s, [[KPI]]s — the whole ornate ''smörgåsbord'' of [[modernist]] fripperies by which their overlords can impel them to carry on, propelling them to find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and basically box on — the Eagle Squad member has no such constraint.  
[[Eagle Squad]]’s power is more of a torture of the living. Whereas others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the poor benighted [[negotiator]]s who are, really, the brave footsoldiers of legal practice, however hotly the [[eaglery]] denies it — have meaningful commercial constraints on the perversity they can bring to their task: there are measurements of their performance, and abstrusity doesn’t count: their [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s, [[KPI]]s — the whole ornate ''smörgåsbord'' of [[modernist]] fripperies by which their overlords can impel them to carry on, propelling them to find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and basically box on — the Eagle Squad member has no such constraint.