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Say you do it “old school”: sure, the dispatch of an [[NDA]] takes an expensive lawyer twenty minutes longer, but comes along once a month, and often provides a convenient diversion during that stakeholder check-in call. and that one, over-qualified lawyer, while handling all that micro-bifurcation, might just see something in the intersection of two roles she, according to management theory, ought not be doing. It does happen: sometimes it is just easier to think while typing than hand it off to a minute secretary.
Say you do it “old school”: sure, the dispatch of an [[NDA]] takes an expensive lawyer twenty minutes longer, but comes along once a month, and often provides a convenient diversion during that stakeholder check-in call. and that one, over-qualified lawyer, while handling all that micro-bifurcation, might just see something in the intersection of two roles she, according to management theory, ought not be doing. It does happen: sometimes it is just easier to think while typing than hand it off to a minute secretary.


And is that lost twenty minutes sacrosanct anyway? Is it a machine-edged unit of productive value. Any of you, my dear readers, who have ever ''met'' an experienced lawyer, let alone happened to, you know, ''be'' one, will know it is not. Only a management consultant — or a legal futurologist — could imagine that one day the world’s corporations might sweat their senior lawyers like pieces of industrial machinery, that their productive output would remain unstintingly constant throughout the day.  And only a management layer not notice far more reliable, and significant, source of unproductive downtime amongst its senior counsel: all the time they spend pissing around on [[operating committee]]s, filling out forms, approving stationery requests, trying to get the blessed skype to talk to your sound card, attending innovation workshops and transformation journey seminars, completing [[computer-based training]], and — above all — answering idiotic questions from management.
And is that lost twenty minutes sacrosanct anyway? Is it a machine-edged unit of productive value? Any of you, my dear readers, who have ever ''met'' an experienced lawyer, let alone happened to, you know, ''be'' one, will know it is not. Only a management consultant — or a legal futurologist — could imagine that one day the world’s corporations might sweat their senior lawyers like pieces of industrial machinery, that their productive output would remain unstintingly constant throughout the day.  And only a management layer not notice far more reliable, and significant, source of unproductive downtime amongst its senior counsel: all the time they spend pissing around on [[operating committee]]s, filling out forms, approving stationery requests, trying to get the blessed skype to talk to your sound card, attending innovation workshops and transformation journey seminars, completing [[computer-based training]], and — above all — answering idiotic questions from management.