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:*refusing to hear of modifications to your comments notwithstanding their illegibility, incomprehensibility or irrelevance;<ref>{{Bold full stop}}</ref> | :*refusing to hear of modifications to your comments notwithstanding their illegibility, incomprehensibility or irrelevance;<ref>{{Bold full stop}}</ref> | ||
:*the rigour of your [[mark-up]]s of closing agendas, bible tables of content and [[process agent]] appointment letters, relative to the substantive comments you made — [[if any]] — on the actual deal documentation; | :*the rigour of your [[mark-up]]s of closing agendas, bible tables of content and [[process agent]] appointment letters, relative to the substantive comments you made — [[if any]] — on the actual deal documentation; | ||
:*the sheer ''inscruitibility' | :*the sheer ''inscruitibility'' of your [[mark-up]]: a question mark, exclamation point or other cryptic glyph, annotated airily in a margin, ''apropos'' nothing obvious but just hovering there, transcendent, above the fray, exuding a other-worldly understanding and preternatural wisdom without giving anything away, leaving your benighted [[Private practice lawyer|external team]] the imaginative task of extracting some meaning out of it and converting that into a positive textual amendment, over which you then have a free option: if it turns out to be brilliant, you can take all credit; if it is not, you can ... | ||
*'''Throw the associate under the bus''': How shamelessly will you blame the most [[Private practice lawyer|junior member of outside counsel team]] — the same one whose name you keep forgetting and whose thoughtful explanations count for nothing in the “yes, but can I speak to a partner please” category — for neglecting to prepare and circulate “critical legal documentation” that has, in fact, been in your inbox since 4.30 a.m. on the Saturday morning immediately following your [[6 p.m.]] request for it? | *'''Throw the associate under the bus''': How shamelessly will you blame the most [[Private practice lawyer|junior member of outside counsel team]] — the same one whose name you keep forgetting and whose thoughtful explanations count for nothing in the “yes, but can I speak to a partner please” category — for neglecting to prepare and circulate “critical legal documentation” that has, in fact, been in your inbox since 4.30 a.m. on the Saturday morning immediately following your [[6 p.m.]] request for it? | ||
*'''External law-firm management''': How insistent are you in requiring any external spend over £2,500 to go through a mandatory three-way bidding process? | *'''External law-firm management''': How insistent are you in requiring any external spend over £2,500 to go through a mandatory three-way bidding process? | ||