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===[[Cui bono]]?=== | ===[[Cui bono]]?=== | ||
Ask yourself who, principally benefits from this provision? Certainly not the client, and not really you either, since you enforce it on pain of sacrificing the [[commercial imperative]] to save your lawyer’s hide. Your lawy — ahhhh, ''that’s'' it! ''That’s'' who benefits from this nutty clause. Your lawyer! | Ask yourself who, principally benefits from this provision? Certainly not the client, and not really you either, since you enforce it on pain of sacrificing the [[commercial imperative]] to save your lawyer’s hide. Your lawy — ahhhh, ''that’s'' it! ''That’s'' who benefits from this nutty clause. Your ''lawyer''! | ||
''And whose idea was this nutty clause, in the first place?'' | ''And whose idea was this nutty clause, in the first place?'' | ||
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{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Allocation of legal fees]] | |||
*The [[commercial imperative]]. ''Never'' forget the [[commercial imperative]]. | *The [[commercial imperative]]. ''Never'' forget the [[commercial imperative]]. | ||
*[[All our other counterparties have agreed this]] | *[[All our other counterparties have agreed this]] | ||
*[[Legal eagle]] | *[[Legal eagle]] | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||