OneNDA: Difference between revisions

OneNDA (view source)

Revision as of 09:36, 26 August 2021

858 bytes added , 26 August 2021

no edit summary

Amwelladmin

Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators

82,883

edits

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 [[File:Club.png|450px|frameless|center|Why did it take the legal community two thousand years to come up with this idea?]]
-}}[[Legal eagle]]s ''love'' the idea that standard, [[boilerplate]], tedious terms that make up the lion’s share of commercial legal discourse are special. Everyone — not just lawyers, come to think of it — likes to believe herself special, privy to something critical; dangerous; ''delicate'' — information that, should it fall into the wrong hands, may wreak great ill upon its owner or the poor unsuspecting random.
+}}[[Legal eagle]]s ''love'' the idea that the standard, tedious terms that make up the lion’s share of commercial legal discourse are ''special''.
-But {{maxim|the quotidian is a utility, not an asset}}. It doesn’t get more quotidian than legal [[boilerplate]]. We should, as a community, regard this as a free public resource, and not some productivity creation intiitative to keep battalions of [[legal eagle]]s in well-paid but soul-destroying work.
+Then again, we all — not just lawyers — like to believe our own domain is sacred: that we are privy to something critical; dangerous; ''delicate'' — arcane learning that, should it fall into unskilled hands, may wreak great ill upon the bystanding world.
+''Make way: I’m a doctor''.
+But our dark secret: much of what we do, to get to those subliminal moments of artistry, we do on autopilot: to win Le Mans you must keep the engine tuned, the tank filled and the tyres pumped up. Without attending to this quotidian stuff, you don’t get to exercise your ineffable skill.
+For lawyers, [[boilerplate]] is the workaday engineering that makes stuff go. Boilerplate is to a contract what spark plugs are to a high-performance engine. What we want from it is ''reliability''. It will not ''win'' us the race; it reduces the likelihood that we ''lose'' it.
+We want boilerplate to work, dependably, and not break down.
+While the quality of one brand of spark plug has no bearing on the quality of another, this is not true of legal boilerplate. There is strength in numbers. If everyone adopts the same boilerplate, the boilerplate is more effective, ''regardless of what it says''. We should, as a community, regard this as a free public resource, and not some productivity creation initiative to keep battalions of [[legal eagle]]s in well-paid but soul-destroying work.
 No type of legal contract is more boilerplate than an [[NDA]]. The [[NDA]] is pure, abstracted, essence of boilerplate. ''[[Boilerplate]] is all there is''.
+But {{maxim|the quotidian is a utility, not an asset}}.
 Kudos, therefore, to the team at [http://www.lawboutique.co.uk TLB] for doing something about it.<ref>Don’t just read about it here: go see: https://www.onenda.org</ref>